Re: pear install doesn't work due to bug in Archive/Tar

From: Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 18:48:39 +0000
Subject: Re: pear install doesn't work due to bug in Archive/Tar
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Lars Petersen wrote: > Hello! > > I can't submit a bug-report on the site. It said it encountered a critical > internal error sending mail. So I am sending to the dev-list. > > I cannot install anything with pear install... It always fails with > "Invalid > tgz file". > > This is a clean install of PHP 5.2.2 on a new machine. During make > install I > get a warning: > > warning: pear/PEAR dependency package "pear/Console_Getopt" installed > version 1.2.1 is not the recommended version 1.2.2 > > I don't know if this has anything to do with it. > > If I try to install anything, and I mean *anything* I get "Invalid tgz > file.". Like so: > > root $ pear install mdb2 > downloading MDB2-2.4.1.tgz ... > Starting to download MDB2-2.4.1.tgz (119,790 bytes) > .....................done: 119,790 bytes > Could not get contents of package "/tmp/pear/cache/MDB2-2.4.1.tgz". Invalid > tgz file. > Download of "pear/mdb2" succeeded, but it is not a valid package archive > Error: cannot download "pear/MDB2" Could you please verify that these steps fail: pear download MDB2 pear bundle MDB2-2.4.1.tgz Thanks, Greg

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