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sneaksie

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Registered: 2009-11-12

Posts: 31

[Solved] Unable to unpack .tar.gz in Gnome

Hey there,

I googled and searched the Forum, but nobody seems to have the same problem

I just installed Arch from scratch and now have Gnome running. I wanted to change my Desktop Theme and downloaded a file from gnome-look.org. When I try to install the theme, though, I got an error:

Cannot install theme
There was a problem while extracting the theme.

When I try to open the archive with file-roller, I got the message

gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

I can unpack the file with 'tar -xvf' at the shell, and file-roller has no problems opening .tar.gz files form /var/cache/packman. I have tried serveral files from gnome-look.org, none works, so it can't just be one corrupt file.

It would be great, if someone could help.

Cheers

Last edited by sneaksie (2010-06-04 11:42:11)

sHyLoCk

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From: /dev/null

Registered: 2009-06-19

Posts: 1,197

Re: [Solved] Unable to unpack .tar.gz in Gnome

It's not a gzip archive I guess [as it says]. Btw, just right click on your desktop and drag the archives to your appearance window and it should get automatically installed.

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a_priori_mouse

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Registered: 2010-05-16

Posts: 38

Re: [Solved] Unable to unpack .tar.gz in Gnome

Yep. And try to determine file type of archive:

 file archname.tar.gz

sneaksie

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Registered: 2009-11-12

Posts: 31

Re: [Solved] Unable to unpack .tar.gz in Gnome

Thanks, I tried the drag'n drop method, but it doesn't work either. Same result:

Cannot install theme.
There was aproblem while extracting the theme.

file returns

POSIX tar archive (GNU)

I also can unpack the archive on the command line with

tar -xvf archivename.tar.gz

Just Gnome and file-roller have trouble.

ber_t

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From: Berlin, Germany

Registered: 2010-03-10

Posts: 214

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Re: [Solved] Unable to unpack .tar.gz in Gnome

Maybe it's just a simple tar archive and not gzipped and tar does detect this but file roller does not. Have you tried renaming it to archname.tar and then installing it -- maybe gzipping it in between?

sneaksie

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Registered: 2009-11-12

Posts: 31

Re: [Solved] Unable to unpack .tar.gz in Gnome

Maybe it's just a simple tar archive and not gzipped and tar does detect this but file roller does not. Have you tried renaming it to archname.tar and then installing it -- maybe gzipping it in between?

That did it for me. Thanks.

jocuri

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Registered: 2009-05-18

Posts: 2

Re: [Solved] Unable to unpack .tar.gz in Gnome

just right click on your desktop and drag the archives to your appearance window