While downloading DivX -despite my best efforts, the data downloaded onto my browser page (as unintelligible characters). In konqueror I had then saved this file under >location>save as. This was causing a problem. Later I used netscape and found the same thing. I had to cancel this download and repeatedly hold down the shift key to get the (save as) dialogue box. Once this was done the file uncompressed ok. Brian Marr On Mon, 25 Mar 2002 21:16, you wrote:

I tried :-) gringo:/home/gringo # gunzip divx4linux50-20020304.tar.gz gunzip: divx4linux50-20020304.tar.gz is a a multi-part gzip file -- get newer version of gzip gringo:/home/gringo # tar xvf divx4linux50-20020304.tar.gz tar: This does not look like a tar archive tar: Skipping to next header tar: 369 garbage bytes ignored at end of archive tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors Brian Marr

On Mon, 25 Mar 2002 20:47, you wrote:

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-----Original Message----- From: Brian Marr [mailto:cabernet@internode.on.net] Sent: Monday, 25 March, 2002 8:21 To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] Unpacking Divx

Suse 7.1 kernel 2.4.17 kde 2.2.2

I get the following when renaming the file tar.gz.

gringo@gringo:~ $tar -zxvf divx4linux50-20020304.tar.gz gzip: stdin is a a multi-part gzip file -- get newer version of gzip tar: Child returned status 1 tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

I have had a look at the ftp.gnu.org site, but was hoping for a suse rpm package as my first choice.

Brian Marr

Hi Brian,

Try 'step by step':

gunzip divx4linux50-20020304.tar.gz tar xvf divx4linux50-20020304.tar

Cheers ... Wolfi