Hi there, On Sat, 17 Nov 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> ...having problems downloading one of the *.gz tarballs on your website. > > ...upon downloading, it has been modified to a *tar.tar file - that is, > openssl-0.9.8g.tar.tar. Ugh. That's probably just Windows being stupid. > So then, I FTP that tar file to the Solaris UNIX > box that I am remotely trying to install OpenSSL onto, and try to untar > -xvf the file, at which point I get the following message: > > vobs lca1099 > /usr/local/bin/tar -xvf openssl-0.9.8g.tar.tar > /usr/local/bin/tar: Hmm, this doesn't look like a tar archive That's because it's not a simple tar archive. It's gzipped... > ... > vobs lca1099 > ls *.gz > openssl-0.9.8g.tar.gz > ... > ^Cvobs lca1099 > gunzip open*.gz > > gunzip: openssl-0.9.8g.tar.gz: invalid compressed data--format violated ...as you figured out for yourself. :) > There's got to be a better way to do this. wget? Check that the file size and its checksum are what you expect after download and after file transfer. Check that you're using binary mode when you transfer with ftp. Use a different file transfer mechanism if you can - sftp for example? -- 73, Ged. ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List openssl-users@openssl.org Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
