Re: problems unzipping NCL file

Mary,

First, thank you for your help! I am a graduate student working on an RA
project and this is a bit outside my "comfort zone". So I apologize off
the bat for any silly questions or misunderstandings.

I ran the ls -l command on the two files, and yes, they are the same size
(11444).

The "tar -zxf" is the same command I was using the other day, and produces
the following error:

gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

Do you have any further suggestions?

Thank you again for your time,
Andria

On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 10:26 AM, Mary Haley <haley@ucar.edu> wrote:

> Hi Andria,
>
> To test this out, I downloaded these two files.
>
> Before gunzipping them, I did an "ls -l":
>
> % ls -l *.gz
> -rw-r--r--@ 1 haley CIT\Domain Users 75194686 Feb 26 09:23
> ncl_ncarg-6.1.2.Linux_Debian6.0_i686_nodap_gcc445.tar.gz
> -rw-r--r--@ 1 haley CIT\Domain Users 77612720 Feb 26 09:23
> ncl_ncarg-6.1.2.Linux_Debian6.0_x86_64_nodap_gcc445.tar.gz
> %
>
> Are your two files the same size?
>
> I then used "tar -zxf" to gunzip and extract the files at the same time:
>
> % tar -zxf ncl_ncarg-6.1.2.Linux_Debian6.0_x86_64_nodap_gcc445.tar.gz
> % tar -zxf ncl_ncarg-6.1.2.Linux_Debian6.0_i686_nodap_gcc445.tar.gz
> %
>
> As you can see, I didn't get any errors, which usually means the files
> extracted without problems.
>
> What command were you using?
>
> --Mary
>
>
>
>
> On Feb 26, 2014, at 8:56 AM, Andria Salas <aks2515@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > Yesterday I was trying to install NCL but was running into problems on
> my Linux machine. Specifically, any program I was using to unzip the file
> I downloaded using the wget script wouldn't recognize the file as being
> zipped.
> >
> > I tried the following two files:
> > ncl_ncarg-6.1.2.Linux_Debian6.0_x86_64_nodap_gcc445.tar.gz
> > ncl_ncarg-6.1.2.Linux_Debian6.0_i686_nodap_gcc445.tar.gz
> >
> > Does anyone have any suggestions? Any advice would be greatly
> appreciated. If any more information is needed, please let me know.
> >
> > Thank you!
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Received on Wed Feb 26 12:20:50 2014