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ninjai117

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Registered: 2011-08-23

Posts: 26

"This does not look like a tar archive"

I've seen other posts but everybody's fix seems to not work for me.  Here is my error:

:: Starting full aur upgrade...

Aur Targets    (3): setuptools python2-iso8601 gnome-shell-google-calendar-git

Proceed with installation? [Y/n]

tar: This does not look like a tar archive

gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
/usr/bin/packer: line 271: cd: setuptools: No such file or directory
No PKGBUILD found in directory.

No matter what, I can't seem to get past this.

jomasti

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From: USA

Registered: 2010-08-17

Posts: 96

Re: "This does not look like a tar archive"

It looks like packer is trying to download the PKGBUILD for setuptools from the AUR, but it doesn't exist. However, setuptools is provided by python2-distribute in extra (or python2-setuptools in the AUR). I think you should remove the current setuptools that you have, install python2-distribute (or python2-setuptools), then try to update again. I think that should work.

EDIT: typo

Last edited by jomasti (2011-12-02 19:27:19)

keenerd

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Registered: 2007-02-22

Posts: 647

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Re: "This does not look like a tar archive"

You should also update Packer.  There is a bug behind your issue that was fixed in September.

ninjai117

Member

Registered: 2011-08-23

Posts: 26

Re: "This does not look like a tar archive"

Thanks so much! I had no "setuptools" installed.  I couldn't remove any package by that name as it did not exist.  I just installed the python2-setuptools then did packer -Syyu again and "setuptools" did not show up.