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From: Axel Kohlmeyer (akohlmey_at_gmail.com)
Date: Fri Dec 09 2016 - 13:51:56 CST

On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 2:50 PM, Axel Kohlmeyer <akohlmey_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

.. it could also be, that your downloads are somehow damaged or incomplete.

axel.

>
> axel.
>
>>
>> Best,
>> Atila
>
>
>
> --
> 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. 

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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.