• via Digitalmars-d-bugs (31/31) Feb 16 2016 https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15693

via Digitalmars-d-bugs <digitalmars-d-bugs puremagic.com> writes:

https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15693

          Issue ID: 15693
           Summary: Peculiar problems with OSX archive
           Product: D
           Version: D2
          Hardware: All
                OS: Mac OS X
            Status: NEW
          Severity: blocker
          Priority: P1
         Component: installer
          Assignee: nobody puremagic.com
          Reporter: bugzilla digitalmars.com

1. At the download page, I hover over [OS X tar.xz]

2. It says I'll be downloading:

  http://downloads.dlang.org/releases/2.x/2.070.0/dmd.2.070.0.osx.tar.xz

3. I download it, and the file downloaded is:

  dmd.2.070.0.osx.tar.tar

which is a different file name. I transfer it to OSX. I try to untar it:

~/dmd.2.070> tar -xf ../dmd.2.070.0.osx.tar.tar
tar: Error opening archive: Child process exited with status 254Child process
exited with status 254
~/dmd.2.070> tar -xf --xz ../dmd.2.070.0.osx.tar.tar
tar: Error opening archive: Failed to open '--xz'
~/dmd.2.070> tar -xf -J ../dmd.2.070.0.osx.tar.tar
tar: Error opening archive: Failed to open '-J'
~/dmd.2.070> tar -xfJ ../dmd.2.070.0.osx.tar.tar
tar: Error opening archive: Failed to open 'J'

Complete failure. The web site should say what command to use to untar it,
since the usual -xf switch does not work on it.

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