On Tue, 9 Apr 2002, Dr Charles-Henri Malbert wrote: > I get a problem while installing sawfish. This is what I get > > curl .......sawfish-1-0-repack.tar.gz > mkdir -p /sw/src/sawfish-1.0.1 > tar -xzf /sw/src/sawfish-1-0-repack.tar.gz
Is this a summary or is that really all the output you got? Seems terse. > gzip: sding: not in gzip format > tar: le processus enfant a retourn?e statut 1 > ###tar failed, exit code 2 > Unpacking the tarball sawfish-1-0-repack.tar.gz of package sawfish-1.0.-1 > failed. the most likely cause for this is a corrupted or incomplete dowload. > > Any ideas? Well if the output here was really as short as you describe it, that seems wrong. You should have seen curl go out & download the package (outputting useful details as it did so), then the tar command should have unpacked the archive & shown you what's in it. This output really doesn't make any sense to me. Do you have the file /sw/src/sawfish-1-0-repack.tar.gz? (On my system it's actually /sw/src/sawfish-1.0.1-repack.tar.bz2, but let's assume for the moment that the difference there is irrelevant.) The file size on that should be around a megabyte -- I show 1016606, but yours will be slightly different if it's compressed as gz instead of bz2; still, it should be in the same range. If you show something much smaller (like say zero) then the download probably failed on you. If so, try deleting or renaming what you have, and running Fink again to try again from scratch. > ps/ I need this sawfish thing to run a medical imaging software called > Amide. Do you need Sawfish specifically, or would any window manager do? There are many managers to choose from; I happen to like Sawfish best at the moment, but you have many others available through Fink -- check out the .info files in /sw/fink/dists/stable/main/finkinfo/x11-wm to see others (blackbox, enlightenment, fvwm, oroborus, pwm, windowmaker, xfce; more in /sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/....). If you're having continuing problems with Sawfish & can make do with another, maybe one of these others will work for you. I'm betting though that the download hid a snag for some reason, and if you try again to run "fink install sawfish" you will be allowed to try over again. -- Chris Devers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Apache / mod_perl / http://homepage.mac.com/chdevers/resume/ "More war soon. You know how it is." -- mnftiu.cc _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
