Magento

I tried to install an extension today running Magento 1.3.0 and got the following error:

downloading Minerva_Shipping-1.2.1.tgz ...
Starting to download Minerva_Shipping-1.2.1.tgz (8,021 bytes)
. . ...done: 8,021 bytes
Could not get contents of package “/home/public_html/magento/downloader/pearlib/download/Minerva_Shipping-1.2.1.tgz”. Invalid tgz file.
Download of “magento-community/Minerva_Shipping” succeeded, but it is not a valid package archive
Error: cannot download “magento-community/Minerva_Shipping”
Install Errors
Download failed
PEAR ERROR: install failed

I have checked the downloader/pearlib/cache and downloader/pearlib/download folders and they both contain files, so the download as far as I can tell succeeded, however Magento thinks the archive file is invalid.  I have tried another extension as well (just in case this particualr one was corrupted) and got the same error.

Can anyone help?

I got exactly the same error, i’m waiting for my host provider to solve this or give me an answer.

myst2 - 26 April 2009 04:30 AM

I got exactly the same error, i’m waiting for my host provider to solve this or give me an answer.

see this thread

http://osdir.com/ml/php.pear.qa/2007-07/msg00032.html

the file you need to fix is in

./downloader/pearlib/php/Archive/Tar.php

i just tried it and it seems to work..

Just tried the above but didn’t work for me, same error.

MP-Rich - 27 April 2009 12:28 AM

Just tried the above but didn’t work for me, same error.

you have to manually apply the fix mentioned on the above url.

Yes I tried that, edited Tar.php, commented out the old listContent() function and manually entered the amended one from the URL above.  Unfortunately I get exactly the same error message.

Also the amended function has a couple of errors that need fixing first anyway - you can’t just copy and paste it from the URL.  The first are the spurious + and - signs placed before the IF statements and the entire function needs a closing brace before it will work.

Is there anything I have missed?  Is it just the Tar.php file that needs updating or is there something else I need to do?

MP-Rich - 27 April 2009 12:53 AM

Yes I tried that, edited Tar.php, commented out the old listContent() function and manually entered the amended one from the URL above.  Unfortunately I get exactly the same error message.

Also the amended function has a couple of errors that need fixing first anyway - you can’t just copy and paste it from the URL.  The first are the spurious + and - signs placed before the IF statements and the entire function needs a closing brace before it will work.

Is there anything I have missed?  Is it just the Tar.php file that needs updating or is there something else I need to do?

you have to remove the lines which have a - sign in front of them, and add the lines that have a + sign.
it’s standard notation for file patches.

Oops, my bad!

Ok, I tried it again (properly this time!) and still get the same error.

has anybody found a solution to this?, i tried replacing tar.php with my local version and it seems to download but nothing is installed.

It seems like the problem may be related to specific installations of Magento as bschiett obviously has fixed theirs with the file patch.  Maybe it’s a file/folder permissions problem?

MP-Rich - 08 May 2009 12:23 AM

It seems like the problem may be related to specific installations of Magento as bschiett obviously has fixed theirs with the file patch.  Maybe it’s a file/folder permissions problem?

if you search with google for the error you will find that the bug is not specific to magento but has something to do with a broken package (Archive/Tar?) in the pear repository.

we fixed it by applying the patch for which i posted the link earlier.

Hi bschiett, I have applied the file patch as mentioned in the link you posted, but still have the same problem.  I did have some issues when I first installed Magento with the default permissions on files and folders and I had to chmod many of them to lower permission status for Group.

I don’t know enough about Unix to proactively seek a solution to any potential problem with file permissions, but considering you have fixed the error with the patch whereas my problem still remains, I presume the issue lies somewhere else and not directly with the amended file.  What do you think?

Right ok, as i said before i do have a local copy of magento working very well, i tried the method above and it still didnt work, is there anything i can take out of my local copy to upload to my server?

Problem fixed for me, heres the solution go to downloader/pearlib/ and delete pear.ini, dont worry as it will rebuild itself when you go to magento connect again.

hopes this helps someone.

Rage you are a star!  Works for me too!  Many thanks guys

Upgrading from PHP 5.2.6 -> 5.2.10 fixed it for me.  So may be a PHP issue.