Problem with Mac DMG file

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scottmjones
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Problem with Mac DMG file

Post by scottmjones »

Is there a problem with the May 1st v. 1.6.0 OS X DMG file? When I try to uncompress it with bzip2 I get an error and the uncompressed file is much smaller than the compressed file.

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scott-joness-macbook-pro:Downloads scott$ ls -l
-rw-r--r--@ 1 scott  staff  27605202 May  1 20:54 VirtualBox-1.6.0-OSX_x86.dmg.bz2

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scott-joness-macbook-pro:Downloads scott$ bzip2 -d VirtualBox-1.6.0-OSX_x86.dmg.bz2 

bzip2: VirtualBox-1.6.0-OSX_x86.dmg.bz2: trailing garbage after EOF ignored
scott-joness-macbook-pro:Downloads scott$ ls -lrt
-rw-------  1 scott  staff   8590336 May  1 20:54 VirtualBox-1.6.0-OSX_x86.dmg
Son of a Beach
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Post by Son of a Beach »

Download it again and see if the new file works correctly.

NB: Do not use the checkbox and 'Download Manager' (unless you really know what it's all about). Make sure you simply click on the file name to download it.

This is not clear on the download page (and Sun really ought to make the clearer on all their download pages, not just for VB).
scottmjones
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Thanks but...

Post by scottmjones »

Thanks for the response.

I tried again. Yes I did just click on the link. Same result as last time.

Thanks,
Scott
m@riposa
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Post by m@riposa »

Don't use Safari for the download or remove the .bz2-Extension from the file afterwards.

For further information have a look at this thread:

http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?t=5446
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