Installing Ns On Linux Troubles

CookieMonsterlah

recently i put together a linux box with mandrake linux 9.0 with no gui command line only and when i got to unpack the ns dedicated package i get and error the error message is

tar: Skipping to next header

gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--format violated
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

the command i used to unzip it was tar zxvf ns_hlds.tar.gz is this the wrong command to use and also i have downloaded the dedicated ns package from many places and still the same error message what am i doing wrong

wendigo

This is me, maybe someone can help, but I would do:

gunzip ns_hlds.tar.gz

tar -xvf ns_hlds.tar


Thats how I do it on my Debian boxes and it works for me.

CookieMonsterlah

nope still keep getting invalid compressed file with either of those commands

wendigo

Did you try re-downloading the file? Also when you downloaded it the first time did you ftp it to the linux box or d/l it directly to the linux box. If you FTP'd the file make sure you did not send it over in ASCII format.

Vadakill

tar zxvf ns_v1_linux_dedicated_server.tar.gz