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Message 3865 - Posted: 4 Jul 2004, 2:42:58 UTC

downloading BOINC software from a win pc, saved to my linux pc (wonders of SAMBA), I am getting errors trying to gzip -d or gunzip the boinc file, error returned is "not in gzip format"

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Message 3867 - Posted: 4 Jul 2004, 2:52:28 UTC - in response to Message 3865.  
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> What to do?

Try:

$ gzip -t boinc_3.18_i686-pc-linux-gnu.gz

... and see if maybe it got corrupted on the download? If it complains, download again (unless you've tried that already). If you used some kind of Winders FTP client, be sure you tell it to use binary mode.

Just FYI, if I list it:

$ gzip -l boinc_3.18_i686-pc-linux-gnu.gz

I see:

compressed uncompressed ratio uncompressed_name
3379690 8529967 60.4% boinc_3.18_i686-pc-linux-gnu

You ought to see that, too.

HTH.

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Message 3883 - Posted: 4 Jul 2004, 4:48:30 UTC

Sometimes Browser seems to gunzip the file when downloading, but don't remove the .gz ending. So check if the file is unpacked. In this case it is much larger. You can simple rename it and start as normal.

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Message 4308 - Posted: 5 Jul 2004, 6:25:00 UTC

gzip says it is not of that format, so trying the -l and -t options are of no use. The file size is about 8.5mb, is this packed or unpacked size, and does Explorer tend to un-gzip things on the fly? This was http downloaded, not ftp.
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Message 4311 - Posted: 5 Jul 2004, 6:35:14 UTC - in response to Message 4308.  

> gzip says it is not of that format, so trying the -l and -t options are of no
> use. The file size is about 8.5mb, is this packed or unpacked size, and does
> Explorer tend to un-gzip things on the fly? This was http downloaded, not ftp.

The file is 3.3 zipped and 8.5 unzipped. What you have is definately already unzipped, so it should work if you just rename it without the .gz, make it executable, then execute it.


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Message 4390 - Posted: 5 Jul 2004, 12:35:51 UTC


That tip did the trick. Who would have thought that Windows Explorer would helpfully unzip the file, then forget to tell you and offer to rename it? Go figure.

At any rate, thanks for the tips, it is now installed on 4/5 home computers, just need to attach KVM to a box in the corner...
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