Re: [Bug-gnubg] Problem with source snapshots

[Christian Anthon]

I have the same problem. But

gunzip gnubg-source-SNAPSHOT-20110207.tar.gz
tar xf  gnubg-source-SNAPSHOT-20110207.tar

seems to work...

Christian.

On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 11:56 AM, Michael Petch <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 08/02/2011 3:49 AM, Misja Alma wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have trouble opening the source snapshot files on the gnubg site.
>> When I download a snapshot file and try to untar it I get the following
>> error:
>>
>> address@hidden:~/gnubg$ tar xzf
>> ../Desktop/gnubg-source-SNAPSHOT-20110207.tar.gz
>> tar: This does not look like a tar archive
>> tar: Skipping to next header
>> tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
>>
>> What could be the problem? My OS is Ubuntu 10.4
>>
> I'm at present using a Debian Squeeze distro (Upgraded from Lenny). I did
> this:
>
> wget
> http://www.gnubg.org/media/sources/gnubg-source-SNAPSHOT-20110207.tar.gz
> tar xfz gnubg-source-SNAPSHOT-20110207.tar.gz
>
> No problem extracting here. How did you download the file? Can you try wget
> and see what happens?
>
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