Failure to extract

[Marc Lehmann]

On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 07:30:43AM +0000, Vytautas Rakeviius <vytautas1987 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> bash-4.3$ wget http://dist.schmorp.de/libev/Attic/libev-4.24.tar.gz
> --2017-05-25 10:29:35--  http://dist.schmorp.de/libev/Attic/libev-4.24.tar.gz
> Resolving dist.schmorp.de (dist.schmorp.de)... 5.9.56.12
> Connecting to dist.schmorp.de (dist.schmorp.de)|5.9.56.12|:80... connected.
> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
> Length: 524264 (512K) [application/gzip]
> Saving to: 'libev-4.24.tar.gz.1'
> 
> libev-4.24.tar.gz.1 100%[==================>] 511.98K  --.-KB/s    in 0.06s   
> 
> 2017-05-25 10:29:35 (8.01 MB/s) - 'libev-4.24.tar.gz.1' saved [524264/524264]
> 
> bash-4.3$ tar -xvf libev-4.24.tar.gz
> tar: This does not look like a tar archive
> tar: Skipping to next header
> tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors

Since you didn't really write anything in your mail, it's not clear what
it is about, but note that you didn't call "tar" on the file that "wget"
has downloaded.

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