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From: Axel Kohlmeyer (akohlmey_at_gmail.com)
Date: Fri Dec 09 2016 - 13:50:14 CST

On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 2:29 PM, Atila Petrosian
<atila.petrosian_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear John,
>
> Thanks for your answer.
>
> I download vmd-1.9.3.bin.LINUX.opengl.tar.gz.
>
> But, when I used tar -xvf vmd-1.9.3.bin.LINUX.opengl.tar.gz, I encountered
> with:
>
> tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
> tar: rmtlseek not stopped at a record boundary
> tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
>
> Only following file and directories were extracted:
>
> configure data LINUX plugins README
>
> After using ./configure,
> VMD plugin include files or directory not found.
>
> I downloaded source 2 more times, but the problem was not solved.
>
> There is the same problem for 1.9.2.
>
> How to resolve that?

please try:

tar -xzvf ...

you have gzip compressed archives, which require the "z" flag to be added.

axel.

>
> Best,
> Atila 

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Dr. Axel Kohlmeyer  akohlmey_at_gmail.com  http://goo.gl/1wk0
College of Science & Technology, Temple University, Philadelphia PA, USA
International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste. Italy.