Alexander Hansen wrote: > The problem is that sourceforge changed their download sites since the > last time you selfupdated: prdownloads now just gives partial files. > Try doing a selfupdate. > > -- > Alexander K. Hansen > Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University > Levitated Dipole Experiment > MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center, 175 Albany Street, NW17-219 > Cambridge, MA 02139-4213 > Phone: 617-252-1818 Fax: 208-988-4057 > > On Mon, 3 Jun 2002, Rich Gronostajski wrote: > > > For some reason, every time I try to install dlcompat (which is required for a > > number of packages I'm trying to install) I get the following error messages: > > > > Information about 427 packages read in 3 seconds. > > rm -rf dlcompat-20020413-1 > > mkdir -p /sw/src/dlcompat-20020413-1 > > tar -xzf /sw/src/dlcompat-20020413.tar.gz > > > > gzip: stdin: not in gzip format > > tar: Child returned status 1 > > tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors > > ### tar failed, exit code 2 > > Unpacking the tarball dlcompat-20020413.tar.gz of package dlcompat-20020413-1 > > failed. The most likely cause for this is a corrupted or incomplete download. > > Do you want to delete the tarball and download it again? [Y/n] y > > rm -f /sw/src/dlcompat-20020413.tar.gz > > curl -f -L -s -S -O > > http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/fink/dlcompat-20020413.tar.gz > > tar -xzf /sw/src/dlcompat-20020413.tar.gz > > > > gzip: stdin: not in gzip format > > tar: Child returned status 1 > > tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors > > ### tar failed, exit code 2 > > Unpacking the tarball dlcompat-20020413.tar.gz of package dlcompat-20020413-1 > > failed. The most likely cause for this is a corrupted or incomplete download. > > Do you want to delete the tarball and download it again? [Y/n] > > > > It doesn't matter how many times I try to download it, it always fails. Could the > > maintainer of dlcompat please investigate. It appears that dlcompat is in an odd > > format. Thanks. > > > > -- > > Richard M. Gronostajski > > Professor, Dept. of Biochemistry > > State University of New York at Buffalo > > 140 Farber Hall, 3435 Main St. > > Buffalo, NY 14214 > > > > Phone: 716-829-3471 > > Fax: 716-829-2725 > > Webpage: http://elegans.swmed.edu/Worm_labs/Gronostajski > > > >
Thanks, that did it. -- Richard M. Gronostajski Professor, Dept. of Biochemistry State University of New York at Buffalo 140 Farber Hall, 3435 Main St. Buffalo, NY 14214 Phone: 716-829-3471 Fax: 716-829-2725 Webpage: http://elegans.swmed.edu/Worm_labs/Gronostajski
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