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Title: Invalid Magic
Post by: freizugheit on November 26, 2003, 03:39:46 am

Lately, I encoutered \"Invalid Magic\" error message while installing software with ipkg-new?

What does it mean?  How to solve the problem?

Thank you in advance!!!

Title: Invalid Magic
Post by: lardman on November 26, 2003, 12:39:13 pm

Normally means an archive (I don\'t know which bit or which one) is corrupted. Assuming you\'re using ipkg-new for a reason (i.e. you don\'t have access to \'ar\'), I\'d try downloading it again.


Si

Title: Invalid Magic
Post by: zenyatta on November 27, 2003, 05:45:37 pm

.ipk files are packaged using either tar+gzip or ar. If you try to gunzip an ar-packaged file it will say \"Invalid Magic\" and die.

ipkg should be able to distinguish between the two .ipk varieties. I don\'t know anything about ipkg-new. Perhaps it\'s a new version of ipkg that does away with using ar, breaking compatibility with old packages...

z.

Title: Invalid Magic
Post by: Anonymous on December 02, 2003, 04:51:38 pm

chances are you\'ve got the same problem described here:

http://www.zaurususergroup.com/index.php?n...viewtopic&t=461 (https://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=461)