UPDATE Corrupt Perl sources package?

nando has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

You are right. I have a problem. Curl also warns me

"curl: (18) transfer closed with 2120028 bytes Remaining to read"

I'm installing perl 5.14 from source, but by unpacking the tar.gz package I find this message:

"gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file tar: Unexpected EOF in archive tar: Unexpected EOF in archive tar: Error is not Recoverable: exiting now "

It also occurs with the sources for version 5.12.

I tried with other packages and I had no problem.

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Re: Corrupt Perl sources package? by moritz (Cardinal) on Oct 14, 2011 at 09:21 UTC
My tar can unpack that file just fine, I'd guess your download simply aborted prematurely. In case you want some data for comparison: `$ sha1sum perl-5.14.2.tar.gz df1549d65cdef2b20023af83ecaa2a024109a5ad perl-5.14.2.tar.gz $ wc -c perl-5.14.2.tar.gz 15223598 perl-5.14.2.tar.gz` [download] Perl 6 - second systems done right	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Corrupt Perl sources package? by flexvault (Monsignor) on Oct 14, 2011 at 09:28 UTC
It works for me. I downloaded from your link, and then did the following: `gzip -d perl-5.14.2.tar.gz tar -tvf./perl-5.14.2.tar` [download] I did not install since I already have 5.14.2, so I didn't check any checksums. But all seems correct. Maybe your gzip is corrupted. Good Luck "Well done is better than well said." - Benjamin Franklin	[reply] [d/l]