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MakeMKV 1.18.1 archives double-compressed
Posted: Sat Jun 07, 2025 4:06 pm
by STrRedWolf
The releases of MakeMKV for Linux were run through with GZip twice, making unarchiving them fail if you just use (for example)
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tar xfvz makemkv-oss-1.18.1.tar.gz
To work around this, run "gunzip" on the archive, then rename the files to add the ".gz". Verify with the "file" command (it reads the file to verify what they actually are).
Re: MakeMKV 1.18.1 archives double-compressed
Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2025 10:58 am
by Nihilus
Same for 1.18.2.
Re: MakeMKV 1.18.1 archives double-compressed
Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2025 3:04 am
by 16442496
Nihilus wrote: ↑Fri Oct 03, 2025 10:58 am
Same for 1.18.2.
Looks like it is Firefox thing.
Downloading with "wget" it works normal.
Re: MakeMKV 1.18.1 archives double-compressed
Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2025 9:39 am
by Nihilus
Indeed. Firefox sends the "Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, br, zstd" header. Pass it to wget and you get double compression as well. The web server does return the "Content-Encoding: gzip" header, so that's weird. Not sure it's supposed to work like that.
Also, to unpack without renaming the intermediate file, just do
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gunzip -c makemkv-oss-1.18.2.tar.gz | tar xvzf -