[cairo] release archive format

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> De: "Arpit Baldeva" <abaldeva at ea.com>
> À: cairo at cairographics.org
> Envoyé: Mardi 2 Avril 2013 20:26:25
> Objet: [cairo] release archive format
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> Hi,
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> I downloaded the latest releases from
> http://cairographics.org/releases/
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> LATEST-cairo-1.12.14
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> LATEST-pixman-0.28.2
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> I was able to unzip pixman by renaming the file to .gz,unrar, rename
> the file again to .gz and unrar on Windows. However, when I rename
> the cairo to .gz and unzip/unrar, I am not able to unzip
> successfully. I always get a “The archive is either in unknown
> format or damaged”.
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> So my question is what format is the archive in? Is this information
> documented somewhere?
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> Thanks.
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You would have find by yourself looking into the release directory and finding the package with corresponding version.
This is tar.xz package that you could directly tar -xf with a modern tar version that support automatic format discovery and xz format. Minimal version should be tar-1.22 (published in 2009).
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2009-03/msg00002.html
If your tar version is older, you need to install xz package and decompress with xz and pipe to tar like this
xz -dc <thefile.tar.xz> | tar xf -

Gilles