Re: Problems extracting *.tar.gz

[Tauno Voipio]

"Teddy Nyambe" <address@hidden> wrote in message
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>   tar zxfv mysql-3.23.36.tar.gz, it started extracting
> but with an error at the end saying:
>   gzip: stdin:  unexpected end of file
>   tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
>   tar Child returned status 1
>    tar: error exit delayed from previus errors
>

Some versions of tar need to have the key f just before the file name:

  tar xzvf path_to_the_tar_gz_file

Note the oder of key letters.

Another possibility is that your download may have been in text mode, so
therre are extra characters in the package. The proper download mode is
binary.

Tauno Voipio
tauno voipio @ iki fi