At 07:40 PM 10/28/02 -0500, Bryan Simmons wrote:
It is easier to diagnose problems with a command when you include the exact command you ran. That said, the first thing to try doing is believing the error message you are getting: the target file you ask unzip to unzip is not a zip archive.Can anyone tell me what the problem is if you've just installed Mandrake 9.0 on an Athlon XP 2100+ system, ATA 100 HD, VIA chipset MB (don't know which chipset number), etc... I thought I installed every library under the sun, as well as every non-server application, but when I try to run the command 'unzip' I get this error:Archive: /usr/bin/unzip End-of-central-directory signature not found. Either this file is not a zipfile, or it constitutes one disk of a multi-part archive. In the latter case the central directory and zipfile comment will be found on the last disk(s) of this archive. note: /usr/bin/unzip may be a plain executable, not an archive unzip: cannot find zipfile directory in one of /usr/bin/unzip or /usr/bin/unzip.zip, and cannot find /usr/bin/unzip.ZIP, period.
From the output of the command, it *appears* you entered something like "unzip /usr/bin/unzip", since the "Archive:" part of the message should be reporting the name of the file you are trying to unzip. Of course, the executable unzip is not iself a zip file, so unzip cannot unzip itself.
As you can see here, I get this same sort of report when I try to unzip an ordinary text file (it matches word for word, except for the names of the files).
autovcr@waverly:~$ unzip vcrlogfile.txt
Archive: vcrlogfile.txt
End-of-central-directory signature not found. Either this file is not
a zipfile, or it constitutes one disk of a multi-part archive. In the
latter case the central directory and zipfile comment will be found on
the last disk(s) of this archive.
unzip: cannot find zipfile directory in one of vcrlogfile.txt or
vcrlogfile.txt.zip, and cannot find vcrlogfile.txt.ZIP, period.
If I have guessed incorrectly here about what command you entered, please report the actual command you did enter to get this output.
I don't use the other commands you asked about, so I can't make any suggestions there.
Also, when I open a zip file in Ark, it says that there is nothing in the archive eventhought the file is listed as 900k or so... And when I try to open any zip in gnozip, the program aborts swiftly, with only these errors (from bash command line):
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