On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 11:56:24PM +0000, Peng HG wrote: > Trying to extract the Popt-1.16 tarball downloaded from the http link fails > with the message > > gzip:stdin: not in gzip format > tar: Child returned status 1 > tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now > > The tarball from the ftp link is OK though.
Probably a browser error. I think chromium did that (decompressing tar.gz) at one time. I've just used wget on the http link. I got the expected md5sum and file reported popt-1.16.tar.gz: gzip compressed data, last modified: Tue May 4 20:56:51 2010, max compression, from Unix ĸen -- `I shall take my mountains', said Lu-Tze. `The climate will be good for them.' -- Small Gods -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
