On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 7:00 PM, 7stud <7s...@excite.com> wrote:
> Russell E. Owen <rowen@...> writes:
>
> > The file you found is the only option for MacOS X (presently). It
> > requires python.org's 32-bit Python 2.7, which is for MacOS X 10.3.9
> > and
> > later.
> >
> > I just built an installer for python.org's 64-bit Python 2.7, which
> > requires MacOS X 10.6 and after a bit of testing I'll serve that.
> >
>
> Thanks for the response! Okay, I see your other thread, so I guess
> I'll be one of your testers.
>
> Since my op, I also tried to download:
>
> matplotlib-1.1.0.tar.gz
>
> and I got a Decompression Failed message in the Downloads window.
> I checked my Safari settings, and
> Safari is set to automatically decompress 'safe' files.
> guess it couldn't in the case of matplotlib.
>
> Next, I tried decompressing and untaring myself:
>
> $ tar xvfz matplotlib-1.1.0.tar.gz
>
> ...but after a lot of output it finished with:
>
> x matplotlib-1.1.0/lib/matplotlib/mpl-data/fonts/ttf/
> STIXGeneralBol.ttf: Truncated tar archive
> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors.
>
> Then I checked the md5, and I got:
>
> $ md5 ~/Downloads/matplotlib-1.1.0.tar.gz
> MD5 (/Users/7stud/Downloads/matplotlib-1.1.0.tar.gz) =
> 57a627f30b3b27821f808659889514c2
>
> ..which matches the md5 listed at sourceforge here:
>
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/matplotlib/files/matplotlib/
> matplotlib-1.1.0/
>
> So it seems to me like the tar.gz file at sourceforge is corrupted.
>
>
Strange, I just double-checked the file and it works fine for me, and I
have the same check-sums. Maybe something is wrong with tar? What version
do you have? For me:
$ tar --version
tar (GNU tar) 1.26
Copyright (C) 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html
>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
Written by John Gilmore and Jay Fenlason.
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