I tried this two commands:
$ tar -tzf xscreensaver-5.19.tar.gz
$ tar -taf xscreensaver-5.19.tar.gz
The same error occurs.
Everything is fine with xscreensaver-5.18.tar.gz. Apparently tar fails to
recognize that xscreensaver-5.19.tar.gz is gz compressed, even when I give the
-z option. For xscreensaver-5.18.tar.gz, the compression is detected without a
special command line option.
** Changed in: tar (Ubuntu)
Status: Invalid => New
** Description changed:
- I tired to open
http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/repo/pkgs/xscreensaver/xscreensaver-5.19.tar.gz/db001e7d17b68fef22f66beb68beb114/xscreensaver-5.19.tar.gz
with
+ I tried to open
http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/repo/pkgs/xscreensaver/xscreensaver-5.19.tar.gz/db001e7d17b68fef22f66beb68beb114/xscreensaver-5.19.tar.gz
with
$ tar -tf xscreensaver-5.19.tar.gz
I get the following:
tar: This does not look like a tar archive
tar: Skipping to next header
tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
But this works:
$ gzip -d xscreensaver-5.19.tar.gz
$ tar -tf xscreensaver-5.19.tar
This works too:
$ tar -tf xscreensaver-5.18.tar.gz
with the file from
http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/repo/pkgs/xscreensaver/xscreensaver-5.18.tar.gz/92eccee4bf6cd8bc6c0de98c1b3107fa/xscreensaver-5.18.tar.gz
So tar can open tar.gz files and xscreensaver-5.19.tar.gz is readable,
but tar can't open this file.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: tar 1.26-4ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-27.43-generic 3.2.21
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-27-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu12
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Aug 17 12:21:13 2012
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110426.1)
ProcEnviron:
- TERM=xterm
- PATH=(custom, no user)
- LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
- SHELL=/bin/bash
+ TERM=xterm
+ PATH=(custom, no user)
+ LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
+ SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: tar
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-05-02 (107 days ago)
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