On Friday 04 December 2009 18:25:58 Celejar wrote: > On Fri, 4 Dec 2009 14:30:09 +0000 > > Lisi <lisi.re...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Friday 04 December 2009 13:54:22 Celejar wrote: > > > On Fri, 4 Dec 2009 11:40:30 +0000 > > > > > > Lisi <lisi.re...@gmail.com> wrote: > > ... > > > > > But I came unstuck at: > > > > $ tar -xvzf install.tar.gz # extract the contents produced by tail > > > > which produced the following error: (the gap between the command and > > > > the error message was put there by Bash) > > > > > > > > doro...@lenny:~/Downloads/z600$ tar -xvzf install.tar.gz > > > > > > > > gzip: stdin: not in gzip format > > > > tar: Child returned status 1 > > > > tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors > > > > doro...@lenny:~/Downloads/z600$ > > > > > > > > I am now stuck. I realise that this is elementary and have spent a > > > > lot of time trying to solve it myself (Google etc.), but I need help! > > > > > > Well, AFAIK, this generally means exactly what it says, that the file > > > you're providing tar with is not actually in gzip format. > > > > I know! But I am as at a loss as to what to do about it. > > > > > Presumably > > > something is wrong with the file you created in the previous step. > > > Post the source of these directions and the location of the file you're > > > working on so we can take a look for ourselves? > > > > Thanks, Celejar. > > > > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=49714 > > > > http://support.lexmark.com/index?page=answers&startover=y&question=z600+l > >inux&locale=EN&productCode=LEXMARK_Z605&segment=DOWNLOAD&us > > > > Sorry - it is very long. You may have to copy and paste. Alternatively, > > Hey, if your mailer doesn't break the link, neither will Sylph - this > is quality free software we're talking about :) > > > click on <here> on the Ubuntu Forums page above. It seems sometimes to > > go through to the Window drivers, but entering "600 linux" in the search > > panel gets the rest of the way through. > > > > I really would be extremely grateful for some help. > > Just run the tail command with '-n +143' instead of 141 and you'll get > a valid gzip archive; I haven't gone further than that. > > FTR, what I did was simple enough: just open the file using, say, > 'view' ('vi -R'), and skim through it to see where the readable text > ends and the binary part begins. The first line containing the binary > data then needs to be passed to tail, as above.
Many thanks!! That's great!! Simple when you know what you are doing. :-) I should be able to get round to the printer owner's house tomorrow morning to try this. (This is the deal-breaker on whether she runs Lenny or XP. And believe me, my life - and hers ;-) - would be a lot simpler if she were running Lenny.) Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
