Thank you for the suggestions. I will email the authors and ask if they can provide an archive instead of the installer.
2011/2/9 Lukas Fleischer <[email protected]> > On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 12:37:16PM +0000, Michael Schubert wrote: > > I tried the following: > > > > $ cat CellDesigner-4.1-linux-installer.bin | tar -xzvf - > > $ cat CellDesigner-4.1-linux-installer.bin | tar -xjvf - > > $ cat CellDesigner-4.1-linux-installer.bin | tar -xJvf - > > > > each of which failed with "unknown archive type". > > $ file > CellDesigner-4.1-linux-installer.bin: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel > 80386, version 1 (GNU/Linux), statically linked, stripped > $ strings CellDesigner-4.1-linux-installer.bin | grep '$Info' > $Info: This file is packed with the UPX executable packer > http://upx.sf.net $ > $ upx -d CellDesigner-4.1-linux-installer.bin > /dev/null > upx: CellDesigner-4.1-linux-installer.bin: CantUnpackException: header > corrupted 2 > > Looks like an UPX-packed executable with an additional wrapper (might be > another layer of encryption/compression) or a modified version of UPX. > This is probably not so easy to unpack and needs more investigation. >
