[Slackbuilds-users] Problems building xephem (3.7.7)

[Andrea Maria Marconi]

Hi Matteo,


Great! It works now.

Thanks a lot.

Andrea


On 12/01/2017 21:35, Matteo Bernardini wrote:
> 2017-01-12 20:52 GMT+01:00 Andrea Maria Marconi <am.marconi at gmx.com>:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I have downloaded the xephem 3.7.7 package and it's build script,
>> unpacked  in the xephem dir (originally in the $HOME/andrea/Download dir
>> and then moved under /tmp which content is:
>>
>> totale 17740
>> drwxr-xr-x   2 andrea users     4096 gen 12 20:40 ./
>> drwxrwxrwt 154 root   root     20480 gen 12 20:41 ../
>> -rw-r--r--   1 andrea users      353 nov 26  2013 00_trailmenu.patch
>> -rw-r--r--   1 andrea users      209 nov 26  2013 README
>> -rw-r--r--   1 andrea users       64 nov 26  2013 XEphem
>> -rw-r--r--   1 andrea users      518 nov 26  2013 doinst.sh
>> -rw-r--r--   1 andrea users      774 nov 26  2013 slack-desc
>> -rw-r--r--   1 andrea users 18099098 gen 12 20:16 xephem-3.7.7.tgz
>> -rw-r--r--   1 root   root       148 gen 12 20:40 xephem-build.log
>> -rwxr-xr-x   1 andrea users     2815 dic 24 01:40 xephem.SlackBuild*
>> -rw-r--r--   1 andrea users      227 nov 26  2013 xephem.desktop
>> -rw-r--r--   1 andrea users      298 dic 24 01:40 xephem.info
>> -rw-r--r--   1 andrea users     2642 gen 12 11:50 xephem.tar.gz
>>
>> I know there are two files more than necessary: the original
>> xephem.tar.gz which I always keep together with the source file and the
>> .log file which I created according to the instruction on SBo after
>> failing to obtain the desired package to install.
>>
>> Actually the content of the log file is the following:
>>
>> tar: Questo non sembra un archivio tar
>> tar: Passaggio alla prossima intestazione
>> tar: Uscita con stato di fallimento in base agli errori precedenti
>>
>> which essentially says (for those who don't understand Italian) that it
>> does not recognize the tar archive as a tar file.
>>
>> I'm new to the list so I'm not sure is a bug it may be that something
>> else but is the first time in several years I'm downloading software
>> from SBo that something doesn't work.
>>
>> Thanks for the help.
>>
>> Andrea
> Hi Andrea,
>
> check the xephem-3.7.7.tgz you downloaded, because it looks different here
>
> # ls -la xephem-3.7.7.tgz
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18128521 Oct 31 17:30 xephem-3.7.7.tgz
> # md5sum xephem-3.7.7.tgz
> 27c67061a89085bf2b0d4e9deb758a79  xephem-3.7.7.tgz
>
> try using wget to get the sources, like
>
> wget -c http://www.clearskyinstitute.com/xephem/xephem-3.7.7.tgz
>
> Matteo
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