Hi, Ben (or anyone else who's had a similar problem), Have you had a chance to see whether 7-Zip worked on a renamed file? I'd like to add the suggestion to the instruction page, but only if I know it works.
- Pam On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 4:03 AM, Pam Greene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just downloaded chromium.tgz (using Firefox) and unpacked it with 7-Zip > with no problems. I'm using 7-Zip version 4.42, in case that matters. > > The first thing to try is to rename chromium.tgz.gz back to chromium.tgz. > For whatever reason, the program you used to download the .tgz also added > another ".gz" onto it, and I suspect that's confusing 7-Zip. > > If that doesn't fix things, run an md5sum utility on the chromium.tgz file > and make sure the hash matches the one at > http://build.chromium.org/buildbot/archives/chromium.tgz.md5 , to be sure > that your download isn't corrupted. You can find an md5sum.exe application > using your favorite search engine. (I use one from Cygwin, so I don't have > a particular md5sum.exe download to recommend; sorry about that.) > > Please let me know if that helps, or if you still have problems. > > - Pam > > > On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 2:32 AM, Ben Solomon (bts) < > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >> OK, 7-Zip did not work. I used bsdtar.exe per the instructionsin the >> Getting Started page. Windows XP does not like the instructions >> >> "C:\Program Files\GnuWin32\bin\bsdtar.exe" -xzf chromium.tgz >> >> because the file extension is incorrect. It should be >> >> "C:\Program Files\GnuWin32\bin\bsdtar.exe" -xzf chromium.tgz.gz >> >> And when it completed I got this error message: >> >> chromium/src/third_party/libxslt/.svn/text-base/configure.svn-base: >> Premature end of gzip compressed data: Input/output error >> C:\Program Files\GnuWin32\bin\bsdtar.exe: Error exit delayed from >> previous errors. >> >> I'm not familiar with the linux/unix stuff. Anyone knows how to >> proceed from here? >> >> Thanks, >> Ben >> >> >> On Sep 14, 7:31 am, "Ben Solomon (bts)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >> > Hi, I'm using 7-Zip to extract the chromium.tgz source tarball but >> > keep getting the error message "chromium is broken" early in the >> > extraction. >> > >> > Need help with resolving this. >> > >> > Thanks, >> > Ben >> >> >> > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Chromium-discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
