Uncompressing the UT2k4 demo

[Zarkoth]

Hey there,

I migrated to Ubuntu about six months ago, love it, showering it with praise, etc.

Only thing is, of course, the lack of games. Now up until around today I have been dealing with not gaming, but I needed a fix, and downloaded the UT2k4 demo for Linux. Only problem is, while uncompressing it, I get "Unexpected End of File"
...and that's it.

So, how do fix that?

Thanks in advance!

[MrCheese]

sounds like your downloaded archive is corrupt. Try re-downloading. If this comes up with the same error, check how big the file is. There is a filesize limit of 2Gb on ext2/3 filesystems, if the file is larger than this it may have been truncated to 2Gb.

[kaamos]

sounds like your downloaded archive is corrupt. Try re-downloading. If this comes up with the same error, check how big the file is. There is a filesize limit of 2Gb on ext2/3 filesystems, if the file is larger than this it may have been truncated to 2Gb.

Maybe ext2 but not in ext3..

Ext3 can support files up to 1TB. With a 2.4 kernel the filesystem size is limited by the maximal block device size, which is 2TB. In 2.6 the maximum (32-bit CPU) limit is of block devices is 16TB, but ext3 supports only up to 4TB.
Ubuntu by default uses an ext3 partition.

[Zarkoth]

I d/led again, and same thing...

Checked the file size, and although the point is moot as mentioned earlier, it is still only 1.8 GB expanded...

Very perplexing, this problem

[kaamos]

What is the file type (zip, gz, bz2)?

[Zarkoth]

The file type is gz

[kaamos]

Open a terminal a when in the same folder with the file, type "tar xfvz nameoffile.tar.gz"

Does it give only the "unexpected end of file" error?

[Zarkoth]

I did this previously on Archive Manager, and that gave me just the unexpected EOF earlier...

Doing it here, I got this -


tar: This does not look like a tar archive
tar: Skipping to next header
tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers

gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors


I shall add the the filename is UT2004-LNX-3334.run.gz

So I think the absence of .tar.gz is something to be noted?

[kaamos]

Well, I can't think of anything but a corrupt download. Sorry. :(