Hi Andy,
Once in a while the someone names the file .tar.gz when they tar it
then don't use gzip on it. Try just untaring with tar xvf <file> and
see what happens. That may do it, not sure.
HTH,
Jim Richards
Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself
a pleasure. --Ambrose Bierce
On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 05:40:21PM -0400, Andrew Dixon wrote:
> Hi All,
> I just downloaded the source to ae from the Debian home page and when I
> try to untar it I get the following error:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ tar -zxvf ae_962.orig.tar.gz
>
> gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
> tar: Child returned status 1
> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$
>
> I also tried to just gunzip it but I'm having no luck there either:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ gunzip ae_962.orig.tar.gz
>
> gunzip: ae_962.orig.tar.gz: not in gzip format
>
>
> Anybody know what's going on here? Alternatively does anyone know where
> I can find the source for ae?
>
> Thanks,
> Andy
>
>
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