On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 6:19 PM, Ben Solomon (bts) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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.
Interesting, that's what I used too, and I didn't get the renaming. > I used IE7 to correctly download > the source tarball. Used 7-Zip, and got one massive file. What do I do > with that? It should now be called chromium.tar. Just extract it with 7-Zip again, and it'll give you a directory called chromium/ containing the source. - Pam > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
