Problem with tar ball

[darren chamberlain]

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* Servie Platon <servie_platon at yahoo.com> [2003-05-23 14:03]:
> I have downloaded gnupg-1.2.2.tar.gz from your site. I use the HowTo
> document as my reference and in doing this procedure. However, when I
> did:
>  
> # tar xvzf gnu-1.2.2.tar.gz
>  
> I got an Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers and invalid
> compressed data--crc error as well as invalid compressed data--length
> error which eventually exited from the process.

Did you check the md5 of the tarball?  It should be
01cf9c6b949603d0511f6fc07bc758d2, as
http://www.gnupg.org/(en)/download/index.html says.  Use the md5sum
program to verify that the tarball is not corrupted.

It's possible that, if you downloaded it using a web browser, that the
browser uncompressed it for you, and you have a regular tar file.  Use
the file command to tell you what type of file it is:

  $ md5sum gnupg-1.2.2.tar.gz
  01cf9c6b949603d0511f6fc07bc758d2  gnupg-1.2.2.tar.gz

  $ file gnupg-1.2.2.tar.gz
  gnupg-1.2.2.tar.gz: gzip compressed data, deflated, last modified: Thu May  1 10:39:14 2003, max compression, os: Unix

  $ gunzip gnupg-1.2.2.tar.gz
  $ file gnupg-1.2.2.tar 
  gnupg-1.2.2.tar: tar archive

(darren)

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