POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : installing POVRay for Linux : Re: installing POVRay for Linux Server Time
8 Aug 2024 16:23:06 EDT (-0400)
  Re: installing POVRay for Linux  
From: David
Date: 25 Nov 2000 17:16:12
Message: <3a203a2c@news.povray.org>
alright I tried it again, *even* re-d/l'd it, but i still get the error.
Attached is the complete output of it.

David

Steve <ste### [at] zeroppsuklinuxnet> wrote in message
news:slr### [at] zero-ppslocaldomain...
> On Fri, 24 Nov 2000 20:56:33 -0600, David wrote:
>
> What's this crap about?
>
> >
> >whenever I run pkgtool to install the povlinux.tgz, I get an error
> >saying:
> >tar (grandchild): read error on -: Input/output error
> >tar (grandchild): at beginning of tape, quitting now
> >tar (grandchild): error is not recoverable: exiting now
> >gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file
> >
> >Anyone got any ideas?
>
> try:
>
> $ tar -xzvf povlinux.tgz
>
> If you still get the error message I'd suggest that your download
> is corrupted, so d/l the file again (but delete the old one first).
>
>
>
> --
> Cheers
> Steve              email mailto:ste### [at] zeroppsuklinuxnet
>
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