Fw: problem installing 5.7 on alpha

[Davis Johnson]

I doubt it is a gcc problem.

The best clue is the "gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--crc error"

I'd try different decompression options. Use -xvZf, -xvjf, -xvyf or even 
-xvf. Note the first option has an upper case Z.

Check your man page for other decompression options.

It is possible that it was compressed with a utility your tar doesn't 
understand. In that case you will need to decompress it with the 
appropriate utility and then untar it.

For example, on solaris I am forever untaring archive.tar.Z  using two 
commands:

uncompress archive.tar
tar -xvf archive.tar

Try running the file command on your tar file, it might tell you how it 
is compressed.

Simon Tierney wrote:

>>Can anyone help, please, when I tar -xvzf this file I am getting the error
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>>"Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers
>>gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--crc error"
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>>and installation exits
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>>I tried to acquire the Compaq compilers mentioned under "platforms" in
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>case
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>>it is a gcc problem, but the page is history.
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