Thanks Pam. You were right. The application I was using to download the source tarball was appending ".gz" to the file name. And surprisingly it was Google's Chrome. I used IE7 to correctly download the source tarball. Used 7-Zip, and got one massive file. What do I do with that?
Ben On Sep 16, 1:28 pm, "Pam Greene" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
