Gzip: stdin: not in gzip format... error on ubuntu server 12.04
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can no one help me?? it should be really easy and quick to recreate in a virtual box
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silly question, but did you try to download the file again. Maybe your tarball is corrupt. check the size and if a MD5 hash is provided on the download site, you can check that also.
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atlast someone answers!! thank you
Im not that experinced with all this Linux stuff but as i see it there are no MD5…
I have tried to download the file againg but not without deleting the original first… I don’t know if Ubuntu does any thing “smart” if you want to download the same file again without deleting the one you downloaded before… do you know?
I must say thought that the download went pretty quick but i am on a company line with 50/50 Mbits and its only around 35-45 in size so… i did check the size because i did have the same concern you mention but i couldn’t see any real difference in filesize… i suspect it will never be spot on…
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just try to gunzip it, then untar it.
[CODE]gunzip fog_0.32.tar.gz[/CODE]
should give you fog_0.32.tar file
[CODE]tar xzvf fog_0.32.tar[/CODE]
should untar to the current working directory.
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for my download: md5sum = 45b323d4150690b9c1aa8288c33830c9 fog_0.32.tar.gz
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I just found the md5 hash info on the sourceforge download page. You have to click the cirlce with the [I]i [/I] in it to view details. the hash matches what I posted. You can check yours by doing
[CODE]md5sum fog_0.32.tar.gz[/CODE] and see what you get. -
Hi Chad,
sorry for my late answer
busy busy busy…I tried the checksum thing and go ff911abc07ff6f714f21c2829192aeb so i guess I have a corrupt download right?
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most likely. if you are going through a proxy or web filter, you might try using ftp, https, or sneakernet.
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thanks for your help chad… im not going through any proxies…
I will try to retrive the tar.gx file in another way… ftp or something…
again thanks for your help!
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Just to help out my fellow Foggers (couldn’t help myself) who might have the same issues this is what i did.
The problem was indeed that i didn’t have have vmware tools installed… I stopped trying to get that installed from VMware and tried virtualbox instead where i found solution.
Allso i went from Ubuntu to Fedora so this works for fedora …
In order to to install the VirtualAdditions in Fedora i used this guide:
i found though that i need to do this step again after i completed the guide:
[COLOR=#d8d8d8][COLOR=#0000ff][B]mkdir[/B] /media/VirtualBoxGuestAdditions [B]mount[/B] -r /dev/cdrom /media/VirtualBoxGuestAdditions[/COLOR][/COLOR]
[COLOR=#d8d8d8][COLOR=#000000]Remember to do “yum install bzip2” because it would be needed. I my have forgot the name but when you try and install VG it will complain and give you the correct name… [/COLOR][/COLOR]
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[COLOR=#d8d8d8][COLOR=#000000]Hope this helped… [/COLOR][/COLOR]
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