The problem is that sourceforge changed their download sites since the last time you selfupdated: prdownloads now just gives partial files. Try doing a selfupdate.
-- Alexander K. Hansen Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University Levitated Dipole Experiment MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center, 175 Albany Street, NW17-219 Cambridge, MA 02139-4213 Phone: 617-252-1818 Fax: 208-988-4057 On Mon, 3 Jun 2002, Rich Gronostajski wrote: > For some reason, every time I try to install dlcompat (which is required for a > number of packages I'm trying to install) I get the following error messages: > > Information about 427 packages read in 3 seconds. > rm -rf dlcompat-20020413-1 > mkdir -p /sw/src/dlcompat-20020413-1 > tar -xzf /sw/src/dlcompat-20020413.tar.gz > > gzip: stdin: not in gzip format > tar: Child returned status 1 > tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors > ### tar failed, exit code 2 > Unpacking the tarball dlcompat-20020413.tar.gz of package dlcompat-20020413-1 > failed. The most likely cause for this is a corrupted or incomplete download. > Do you want to delete the tarball and download it again? [Y/n] y > rm -f /sw/src/dlcompat-20020413.tar.gz > curl -f -L -s -S -O > http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/fink/dlcompat-20020413.tar.gz > tar -xzf /sw/src/dlcompat-20020413.tar.gz > > gzip: stdin: not in gzip format > tar: Child returned status 1 > tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors > ### tar failed, exit code 2 > Unpacking the tarball dlcompat-20020413.tar.gz of package dlcompat-20020413-1 > failed. The most likely cause for this is a corrupted or incomplete download. > Do you want to delete the tarball and download it again? [Y/n] > > It doesn't matter how many times I try to download it, it always fails. Could the > maintainer of dlcompat please investigate. It appears that dlcompat is in an odd > format. Thanks. > > -- > Richard M. Gronostajski > Professor, Dept. of Biochemistry > State University of New York at Buffalo > 140 Farber Hall, 3435 Main St. > Buffalo, NY 14214 > > Phone: 716-829-3471 > Fax: 716-829-2725 > Webpage: http://elegans.swmed.edu/Worm_labs/Gronostajski > > _______________________________________________________________ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas -- http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
