From: JRough on
Okay, I'm trying to reinstall MySQL. I downloaded it via curl. I got
mysql-5.1.33.tar.gz in my directory. I try to unpack it and I get an
error. I guess it really isn't a gzip file? Is there any other way
to unpack it? Do I have to change the permissions? They are -rw-r--
r-- 1 0 0 2079 Dec 4 22:45 mysql-5.1.33.tar.gz


sh-3.2# curl -O http://mysql.he.net/Downloads/MySQL-5.1/mysql-5.1.33.tar.gz
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time
Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent
Left Speed
100 2079 100 2079 0 0 9593 0 --:--:-- --:--:--
--:--:-- 8429
sh-3.2# ls
mysql-5.1.33.tar.gz
sh-3.2# tar xzvf mysql-5.1.33.tar.gz

gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
From: Seebs on
On 2009-12-05, JRough <jlrough(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
> Okay, I'm trying to reinstall MySQL. I downloaded it via curl. I got
> mysql-5.1.33.tar.gz in my directory. I try to unpack it and I get an
> error. I guess it really isn't a gzip file? Is there any other way
> to unpack it? Do I have to change the permissions? They are -rw-r--
> r-- 1 0 0 2079 Dec 4 22:45 mysql-5.1.33.tar.gz

What do you think the chances are that a complete mysql source archive,
even compressed, is just barely over 2KB of data?

A common problem you might face would be that the URL in question would
be the URL of a page that redirects to download mirrors, in which case,
you'd have downloaded a smallish hunk of HTML.

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From: David W. Hodgins on
On Sat, 05 Dec 2009 01:50:28 -0500, JRough <jlrough(a)yahoo.com> wrote:

> sh-3.2# curl -O http://mysql.he.net/Downloads/MySQL-5.1/mysql-5.1.33.tar.gz

The site appears to be borked, at present. From
http://mysql.he.net/downloads/mysql/5.1.html#linux
I tried to download
http://mysql.he.net/Downloads/MySQL-5.1/mysql-5.1.39-linux-i686-glibc23.tar.gz
but it fails with with a message "File not found".

What distribution are you using? Most distros include a version
of mysql in their package manager.

Regards, Dave Hodgins

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From: Harry331 on
JRough wrote...
>
>Okay, I'm trying to reinstall MySQL. I downloaded it via curl. I got
>mysql-5.1.33.tar.gz in my directory. I try to unpack it and I get an
>error. I guess it really isn't a gzip file? Is there any other way
>to unpack it? Do I have to change the permissions? They are
> -rw-r--r-- 1 0 0 2079 Dec 4 22:45 mysql-5.1.33.tar.gz

>sh-3.2# curl -O http://mysql.he.net/Downloads/MySQL-5.1/mysql-5.1.33.tar.gz

Seeds already pointed out what's wrong with your tar ball.

Anyway, finding another tar ball using Google, like this.

wget http://files.directadmin.com/services/all/mysql/mysql-5.1.41.tar.gz
....
22400K -> .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... [ 99%]
22450K -> .......... .......... .......... ....... [100%]

From: WANG Cong on
On 12/05/09 14:50, JRough <jlrough(a)yahoo.com> wrote:

> Okay, I'm trying to reinstall MySQL. I downloaded it via curl. I got
> mysql-5.1.33.tar.gz in my directory. I try to unpack it and I get an
> error. I guess it really isn't a gzip file? Is there any other way
> to unpack it? Do I have to change the permissions? They are -rw-r--
> r-- 1 0 0 2079 Dec 4 22:45 mysql-5.1.33.tar.gz
>
>
> sh-3.2# curl -O http://mysql.he.net/Downloads/MySQL-5.1/mysql-5.1.33.tar.gz
> % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time
> Time Current
> Dload Upload Total Spent
> Left Speed
> 100 2079 100 2079 0 0 9593 0 --:--:-- --:--:--
> --:--:-- 8429
> sh-3.2# ls
> mysql-5.1.33.tar.gz
> sh-3.2# tar xzvf mysql-5.1.33.tar.gz
>
> gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
> tar: Child returned status 1
> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

What does 'file mysql-5.1.33.tar.gz' say?


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