Re: Checksum error untaring xemacs-sumo-2005-01-18.tar
Preben S Madsen <YPM(a)dk.ibm.com> writes:
Hi there!
I have downloaded the sumo package of xemacs, and I'm about to unpack it,
but unfortunately it comes up with this error:
tar: directory checksum error
I then tried the archives:
xemacs-sumo-2005-01-18.tar.bz2,
xemacs-sumo-2005-01-18.tar.gz, and
xemacs-sumo.tar.gz
I'm unpacking on a Solaris 8.
The gunzip, and bunzip2 operations as the first step is flawless for all
three archives.
The error appears when using tar on the gunzipped, or bunzipped tar-file.
To me it seems like the tar archive within the zipped archives are
erroneous.
I hope you can help me!
This is an incompatibility between GNU tar, which was used to create
the archive, and Solaris tar. Norbert, I forget what the solution on
the creation side is, but Preben, if you could use GNU tar, you could
unpack the archive. GNU tar is available at ftp.gnu.org.
Does anyone remember how to remedy this on the sender side? Is it
pathnames that are too long? ??
- vin