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General Forums => General Discussion => Topic started by: a1amoeba on July 13, 2004, 10:50:26 pm

Title: Invalid magic???
Post by: a1amoeba on July 13, 2004, 10:50:26 pm

Ok I'm trying to install lipcap on my sd card.

Enter "ipkg install -force-depends -dest sd libpcap*" and I get the message "invalid magic". I get this when I try to install half the programs.

What does this message mean? Did I forget to add eyeofnewt.com to resolv.conf?

Help please!

Title: Invalid magic???
Post by: lardman on July 14, 2004, 02:09:29 pm

It's an error to do with tar (or gunzip, not sure which) not liking the file you're trying to extract.

Probably because the ipk is actually an ar file.

Si

Title: Invalid magic???
Post by: a1amoeba on July 14, 2004, 05:17:12 pm

Hmm, well I tried ar -x libglib* and got

"ar: invalid ar magic"

Any other tips? This is getting very frustrating.

Title: Invalid magic???
Post by: tumnus on July 14, 2004, 05:27:49 pm

Your file is possibly corrupt. Did you try downloading it again?