0

I recently got the Raspberry Pi Model B, and have been tinkering with it for hours on end. I recently discovered that one of my favorite games, Minecraft is now available. I downloaded the program and saved it to my Desktop. I then looked at the instructions. Here is my terminal session:

cd Desktop

This changed the directory to Desktop - no biggie.

tar -zxvf minecraft-pi-0.1.1.tar.gz

This is where problems arise. Here are the error messages:

gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

First off, can someone explain to me what I am doing wrong? Then, if at all possible, please explain to me what the globbity-gloop on the screen is; I need to cognate, not simply nod my head and copy your work.

Thanks so much - I know that I will weather the perfect storm!

Improve this question
4

It sounds like you are doing it correctly. My guess is that the file is incomplete. That's what "unexpected end of file" means- basically tar is saying "I expect the file to continue but it stopped".

Often sites will list a md5sum or other hash you can use to verify a download. This one doesn't. I downloaded the file locally to get the size- 573922 bytes. So, do the following:

ls -l minecraft-pi-0.1.1.tar.gz

What size is listed? Assuming it's wrong, you can remove the file:

rm minecraft-pi-0.1.1.tar.gz

And then download it again:

wget https://s3.amazonaws.com/assets.minecraft.net/pi/minecraft-pi-0.1.1.tar.gz

Verify the size (with ls -l) and then use the tar command you have above.

To reiterate, here are the three lines tar returned and what they mean:

gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file

"I was trying to uncompress the file and it wasn't complete"

tar: Child returned status 1

"I am the tar command, I asked gzip to uncompress the file, and it failed with a code.`

tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

"I don't know what to do with these errors. I'm outta here."

Improve this answer
5
  • Yes, I think that it wasn't a complete download. How can I have Midori notify me when the download is complete?
    – xxmbabanexx
    Mar 25 '13 at 18:16
  • 1
    You should try downloading the file using wget ... that's what I used.
    – HeatfanJohn
    Mar 25 '13 at 18:20
  • If the download is incomplete, you'll have problems on using it. There's no reason for a modal box or getting more complicated unless you are in a production environment. (you could script to ensure the hash matches, but.. why bother?)
    – tedder42
    Mar 25 '13 at 18:33
  • @HeatfanJohn I tried to download the file using wget, and I typed the URL in correctly. Sadly, the download failed. The error was wget: unable to resolve host address 's3.amazonaws.com' HELP!
    – xxmbabanexx
    Mar 28 '13 at 7:20
  • Actually I got ERROR: The certificate of 's3.amazonaws.com' is not trusted. on my Windows machine running Cgywin. I was able to download the file using HTTP:// instead of HTTPS://. Can you nslookup s3.amazonaws.com` on your machine? Maybe try downloading the file on another computer and then transferring the file to your PI.
    – HeatfanJohn
    Mar 28 '13 at 13:31
0

A better way would be to just sudo apt-get minecraft-pi but I guess you want to do it this way? Anyway, it is probably incomplete, shown by this here:

gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file

tar: Child returned status 1 This pretty much means gzip(which it uses to unzip, hence the 'child' part) returned an error code (1). Things won't say stuff like this otherwise most of the time

tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now This means tar doesn't know what status 1 is (because it isn't gzip)

Improve this answer

Your Answer

By clicking “Post Your Answer”, you agree to our terms of service, privacy policy and cookie policy

Not the answer you're looking for? Browse other questions tagged or ask your own question.