figured it out. thanks anyway. the first dload had stopped at 12 percent. second dload was named Open_A2Billing_version_Raccoon.tar.gz.1 ran the command tar -xzvf Open_A2Billing_version_Raccoon.tar.gz.1 everything good now at least up to this point.
hope this helps the other non linux people out there john fraser On Tue, 15 Nov 2005 02:52:46 -0800, John Fraser wrote > Thank you for the reply. I downloaded again and ran the command > tar -xzvf Open_A2Billing_version_Raccoon.tar.gz > > but still getting the same error. may I ask the url you used for > the download please? thank you john fraser > > asterisk:/usr/src/a2billing# wget > http://www.areski.net/a2billing/Open_A2Billing_version_Raccoon.tar.gz > --11:49:03-- > http://www.areski.net/a2billing/Open_A2Billing_version_Raccoon.tar.gz > => `Open_A2Billing_version_Raccoon.tar.gz.2' > Resolving www.areski.net... 213.186.33.19 > Connecting to www.areski.net[213.186.33.19]:80... connected. > HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK > Length: 2,559,178 [application/x-tar] > > 100% > [============================================================================= > =====>] 2,559,178 50.67K/s ETA 00:00 > > 11:49:47 (58.41 KB/s) - `Open_A2Billing_version_Raccoon.tar.gz.2' > saved [2559178/2559178] > > asterisk:/usr/src/a2billing# > > On Tue, 15 Nov 2005 14:35:03 +0400, Vahan Yerkanian wrote > > John Fraser wrote: > > > does anybody know what i am doing wrong? help please > > > > > > gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file > > > tar: Read 8572 bytes from Open_A2Billing_version_Raccoon.tar.gz > > > tar: Unexpected EOF in archive > > > tar: Unexpected EOF in archive > > > tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now > > > asterisk:/usr/src/a2billing# > > > > Sounds like a truncated .tar.gz. Make sure the download finishes > > successfuly. I had no problems downloading the tarball from the website. > > _______________________________________________ > --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- > > Asterisk-Users mailing list > Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users