[Bioperl-l] Problem untarring the 1.2 distribution

[Tim Henderson]

I just downloaded the 1.2 distribution using wget:

wget http://www.bioperl.org/ftp/DIST/bioperl-1.2.tar.gz

When I try to untar it I get the error below. Is there something wrong 
with the tarball, or is it just me?


-- Tim


[tjh@feature tjh]$ cat /etc/redhat-release
Red Hat Linux release 7.3 (Valhalla)
[tjh@feature tjh]$ ls -l bioperl-1.2.tar.gz
-rw-rw-r--    1 tjh      tjh       3425575 Dec 31 05:55 bioperl-1.2.tar.gz
[tjh@feature tjh]$ tar tzf bioperl-1.2.tar.gz
bioperl-1.2
bioperl-1.2/Bio
bioperl-1.2/Bio/Align
bioperl-1.2/Bio/Align/AlignI.pm
bioperl-1.2/Bio/Align/DNAStatistics.pm
bioperl-1.2/Bio/Align/PairwiseStatistics.pm
bioperl-1.2/Bio/Align/StatisticsI.pm
bioperl-1.2/Bio/Align/Utilities.pm
bioperl-1.2/Bio/AlignIO.pm
bioperl-1.2/Bio/AnalysisParserI.pm
bioperl-1.2/Bio/AnalysisResultI.pm
bioperl-1.2/Bio/AnnotatableI.pm
bioperl-1.2/Bio/AnnotationCollectionI.pm
bioperl-1.2/Bio/AnnotationI.pm
bioperl-1.2/Bio/Biblio.pm
bioperl-1.2/Bio/ClusterI.pm
bioperl-1.2/Bio/ClusterIO.pm
bioperl-1.2/Bio/DBLinkContainerI.pm
bioperl-1.2/Bio/DasI.pm
bioperl-1.2/Bio/DescribableI.pm
bioperl-1.2/Bio/FeatureHolderI.pm
bioperl-1.2/Bio/Graphics.pm
bioperl-1.2/Bio/IdCollectionI.pm
bioperl-1.2/Bio/IdentifiableI.pm
bioperl-1.2/Bio/LocatableSeq.pm
bioperl-1.2/Bio/LocationI.pm
bioperl-1.2/Bio/MapIO.pm
bioperl-1.2/Bio/Perl.pm
bioperl-1.2/Bio/PrimarySeq.pm
bioperl-1.2/Bio/PrimarySeqI.pm
tar: Skipping to next header
tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers

gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--crc error

gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--length error
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors