Hi, I've only just caught up on the update to ess-17.11 and went to install it using the Gentoo Linux package management system portage.
It complained that the ess-17.11.tgz was not a compressed archive and this appears to be true, its just a plain tar-ball. This means that when portage trys to unpack it based on the file extension '.tgz' it tries to uncompress it, which fails. For now I've change the ebuild (the scripts which install programmes under Gentoo/Linux) to use the ess-17.11.zip but thought this worth reporting. I include below downloading the ess-17.11.tgz and attempting to unzip/uncompress manually, what finally worked was renaming to ess-17.11.tar and untar the archive. Details of this are also on Gentoo Buzilla at https://bugs.gentoo.org/639752 Regards, Neil ~/tmp/ess $ wget http://ess.r-project.org/downloads/ess/ess-17.11.tgz --2017-12-05 08:12:09-- http://ess.r-project.org/downloads/ess/ess-17.11.tgz Resolving ess.r-project.org... 129.132.119.195 Connecting to ess.r-project.org|129.132.119.195|:80... connected. 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