On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 3:06 PM, aradea hakim <arade...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > I am trying to install matplotlib1.0.1 on my machine but somehow I keep on > getting a corrupt .tar.gz file.
> This is the error message: > tar: Skipping to next header > gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--crc error > gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--length error > tar: Child returned status 1 > tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors > Any help would be appreciated. Thank you. Seems to work for me. What platform are you on -- can you verify the md5 sum of your download? Here is what I get (my md5 and sha sums match those reported on the sf download site) jdhun...@uqbar:tmp> wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/matplotlib/files/matplotlib/matplotlib-1.0.1/matplotlib-1.0.1.tar.gz ...snip 2011-01-06 13:18:25 (159 KB/s) - `matplotlib-1.0.1.tar.gz' saved [13285166/13285166] jdhun...@uqbar:tmp> md5sum matplotlib-1.0.1.tar.gz 2196c0482d5b33dc8d33f67bbafc1323 matplotlib-1.0.1.tar.gz jdhun...@uqbar:tmp> sha1sum matplotlib-1.0.1.tar.gz c7a832f28a66817626e7a8af21e14ea0e15f4008 matplotlib-1.0.1.tar.gz jdhun...@uqbar:tmp> tar tvf matplotlib-1.0.1.tar.gz |tail -5 -rw-r--r-- jdhunter/jdhunter 9582 2010-07-06 18:41 matplotlib-1.0.1/lib/mpl_toolkits/axes_grid1/inset_locator.py -rw-r--r-- jdhunter/jdhunter 16648 2010-07-06 18:41 matplotlib-1.0.1/lib/mpl_toolkits/axes_grid1/parasite_axes.py -rw-r--r-- jdhunter/jdhunter 25637 2010-07-06 18:41 matplotlib-1.0.1/lib/mpl_toolkits/axes_grid1/axes_grid.py -rw-r--r-- jdhunter/jdhunter 4658 2010-07-06 18:41 matplotlib-1.0.1/lib/mpl_toolkits/axes_grid1/axes_rgb.py -rw-r--r-- jdhunter/jdhunter 27358 2010-08-03 07:22 matplotlib-1.0.1/lib/mpl_toolkits/axes_grid1/colorbar.py ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn how Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) One Node allows customers to consolidate database storage, standardize their database environment, and, should the need arise, upgrade to a full multi-node Oracle RAC database without downtime or disruption http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users