[Zope] Can't untar Zope distribution

[Paul Browning]

--On 08 January 2003 14:17 -0500 "Maiden, Charles" 
<charles.maiden@corp.stargate.net> wrote:

>
> I downloaded Zope-2.6.0-src.tgz so I thought, but the file that downloads
> is actually Zope-2.6.0-src.gz (just thought I'd mention that in case it
> made a difference).

I think it does. Rename the file as Zope-2.6.0-src.tgz
and then try

tar tvzf Zope-2.6.0-src.tgz

etc.

Paul

> Seeing the .gz file type, I first tried gunzip and got this error:
>
> incomplete literal tree
> gunzip: Zope-2.6.0-src.gz: invalid compressed data--format violated
>
> I then tried unzip and got this error:
>
> End-of-central-directory signature not found.  Either this file is not
> a zipfile, or it constitutes one disk of a multi-part archive.  In the
> latter case the central directory and zipfile comment will be found on
> the last disk(s) of this archive.
> unzip:  cannot find zipfile directory in one of Zope-2.6.0-src.gz or
> Zope-2.6.0-src.gz.zip, and cannot find Zope-2.6.0-src.gz.ZIP, period.
>
> So I tried tar (Gnu tar), I got this error:
>
> incomplete literal tree
> gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--format violated
> tar: Child returned status 1
> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
>
>
> Anyone got any idea what's going on here?  I am on a FreeBSD platform.
>
> By the way, is there an ftp site where I can ftp these files directly?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Chuck
>
>
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