Found the following in my Inbox from user Mark Brown

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I have CENTOS 5 on a system that has a lot of free resources. I know almost nothing about linux..HELP ME

I access the system from SSH.
I get the following error from eithor files:
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$ sh boinc_compat_6.4.5_i686-pc-linux-gnu.sh
tar: Skipping to next header
tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers

gunzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--crc error

gunzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--length error
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
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$ sh boinc_6.4.5_i686-pc-linux-gnu.sh
tar: Skipping to next header

gunzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--crc error

gunzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--length error
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors


This happens with every version I have found/downloaded.

I have tried to follow the docs at http://www.spy-hill.net/help/boinc/unix.html

Thanks
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Unfortunately I don't have access to a Centos box to troubleshoot this, so I'm hoping someone from the BOINC community could offer this user some help.

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ralic's law of forums: Irrespective of any prior research done, you will find the solution to your question shortly after posting it to a public Internet forum, resulting in readers concluding that you have done no research on the matter whatsoever.

Mark,

If you're reading this, I can't seem to replicate your problem. Here are my results:

[root@baz tmp]# uname -a
Linux baz 2.6.18-128.1.10.el5 #1 SMP Thu May 7 10:39:21 EDT 2009 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

[root@baz tmp]# cat /etc/redhat-release
CentOS release 5.3 (Final)

[root@baz tmp]# wget http://boinc.berkeley.edu/dl/boinc_6.4.5_i686-pc-linux-gnu.sh
--20:27:37--  http://boinc.berkeley.edu/dl/boinc_6.4.5_i686-pc-linux-gnu.sh
Resolving boinc.berkeley.edu... 128.32.18.189
Connecting to boinc.berkeley.edu|128.32.18.189|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 4371490 (4.2M) [application/x-sh]
Saving to: `boinc_6.4.5_i686-pc-linux-gnu.sh'

100%[===========================================================================================>] 4,371,490   2.21M/s   in 1.9s

20:27:39 (2.21 MB/s) - `boinc_6.4.5_i686-pc-linux-gnu.sh' saved [4371490/4371490]

[root@baz tmp]# md5sum boinc_6.4.5_i686-pc-linux-gnu.sh
76c09451bac3f049a30dd5c54cf660b0  boinc_6.4.5_i686-pc-linux-gnu.sh

[root@baz tmp]# /bin/sh ./boinc_6.4.5_i686-pc-linux-gnu.sh
use /root/tmp/BOINC/run_manager to start BOINC

[root@baz tmp]#

I suspect a corrupt or incomplete download of the installer packages. Run the md5sum command on your package and see if the checksum matches with mine above. If it doesn't, then your download is bad.

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ralic's law of forums: Irrespective of any prior research done, you will find the solution to your question shortly after posting it to a public Internet forum, resulting in readers concluding that you have done no research on the matter whatsoever.