Problems installing Inspircd on Ubuntu 20.04
by Tons of Fun from LinuxQuestions.org on (#5FZ4R)
I have a client who wants a private IRC server. I'm having problems installing the latest release of Inspircd IRC server on Ubuntu Server 20.04 LTS. I can install and update ubuntu with no problem. Then I download inspircd-3.9.0.tar.gz file via wget, again no problem. When I try to extract the files via tar xvf ./inspircd-3.9.0.tar.gz, I get the following error:
gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
I have Googled this and tried the various fixes without any success. When I looked into the file with $ file inspircd-3.9.0.tar.gz I get the following:
HTML document, UTF-8 Unicode text, with very long lines.
This happens with Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and 20.04 LTS. It is also happening on VMware esxi 6.70 and Virtualbox.
I am only able to successfully install Inspircd using version 2.0.25, which is a few years old so i would rather not use it. The Inspircd documentation provides no help with this error.
Thanks in advance for any help you can provide. If I left something out, please let me know.
gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
I have Googled this and tried the various fixes without any success. When I looked into the file with $ file inspircd-3.9.0.tar.gz I get the following:
HTML document, UTF-8 Unicode text, with very long lines.
This happens with Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and 20.04 LTS. It is also happening on VMware esxi 6.70 and Virtualbox.
I am only able to successfully install Inspircd using version 2.0.25, which is a few years old so i would rather not use it. The Inspircd documentation provides no help with this error.
Thanks in advance for any help you can provide. If I left something out, please let me know.