can not extract cacti-0.8.7g.tar.gz

[goude]

Hello everyone

I downloaded cacti-0.8.7g.tar.gz many times using firefox and chrome but for some reason I can not extract it.
tar -xvf cacti-0.8.7g.tar.gz gives me:

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

Some people suggest renaming the file or using gunzip before tar -xvf but it doesn't work for me so far.

Has anyone had the same problem before?
Any suggestions please?

Many thanks

[goude]

Windows-Linux = 1-0

Just downloaded cacti again from a windows machine and extracted it using winrar in Windows and it worked.

[phalek]

you could try and have a look into the tar.gz file under Linux. It may just have some text in it e.g like: "Unable to download file due to missing proxy" or something like that ...

[goude]

Out of curiosity how can you do that?

If I use the file command all it's says is: data

Is that what you mean?

[phalek]

then it's probably a corrupt file.

Other commands would be

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less file.tar.gz
more file.tar.gz
cat file.tar.gt

though they corrupt your screen due to the binary natuer of that file