Re: [Matplotlib-users] corrupt .tar.gz

[John H. <jd...@gm...>]

On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 3:06 PM, aradea hakim <ara...@gm...> wrote:
> Hi all,
> I am trying to install matplotlib1.0.1 on my machine but somehow I keep on
> getting a corrupt .tar.gz file.


> This is the error message:
> tar: Skipping to next header
> gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--crc error
> gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--length error
> tar: Child returned status 1
> tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
> Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.

Seems to work for me.  What platform are you on -- can you verify the
md5 sum of your download?  Here is what I get (my md5 and sha sums
match those reported on the sf download site)


jdhunter@uqbar:tmp> wget
http://sourceforge.net/projects/matplotlib/files/matplotlib/matplotlib-1.0.1/matplotlib-1.0.1.tar.gz
...snip
2011-01-06 13:18:25 (159 KB/s) - `matplotlib-1.0.1.tar.gz' saved
[13285166/13285166]


jdhunter@uqbar:tmp> md5sum matplotlib-1.0.1.tar.gz
2196c0482d5b33dc8d33f67bbafc1323  matplotlib-1.0.1.tar.gz

jdhunter@uqbar:tmp> sha1sum matplotlib-1.0.1.tar.gz
c7a832f28a66817626e7a8af21e14ea0e15f4008  matplotlib-1.0.1.tar.gz


jdhunter@uqbar:tmp> tar tvf matplotlib-1.0.1.tar.gz |tail -5
-rw-r--r-- jdhunter/jdhunter    9582 2010-07-06 18:41
matplotlib-1.0.1/lib/mpl_toolkits/axes_grid1/inset_locator.py
-rw-r--r-- jdhunter/jdhunter   16648 2010-07-06 18:41
matplotlib-1.0.1/lib/mpl_toolkits/axes_grid1/parasite_axes.py
-rw-r--r-- jdhunter/jdhunter   25637 2010-07-06 18:41
matplotlib-1.0.1/lib/mpl_toolkits/axes_grid1/axes_grid.py
-rw-r--r-- jdhunter/jdhunter    4658 2010-07-06 18:41
matplotlib-1.0.1/lib/mpl_toolkits/axes_grid1/axes_rgb.py
-rw-r--r-- jdhunter/jdhunter   27358 2010-08-03 07:22
matplotlib-1.0.1/lib/mpl_toolkits/axes_grid1/colorbar.py