ghostscript problem

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Jul 3, 2012, at 09:28, Gideon Simpson wrote:

> On Jul 3, 2012, at 12:20 AM, Lawrence Velázquez wrote:
> 
>> On Jul 2, 2012, at 11:45 p.m., Gideon Simpson wrote:
>> 
>>> On Jul 2, 2012, at 8:52 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On Jul 2, 2012, at 20:43, Gideon Simpson wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> gideon@~$ sudo port install ghostscript
>>>>> --->  Computing dependencies for ghostscript
>>>>> --->  Verifying checksum(s) for ghostscript
>>>>> Error: Checksum (md5) mismatch for ghostscript-9.05.tar.gz
>>>>> Error: Checksum (sha1) mismatch for ghostscript-9.05.tar.gz
>>>>> Error: Checksum (rmd160) mismatch for ghostscript-9.05.tar.gz
>>>>> ***
>>>>> The non-matching file appears to be HTML. See this page for possible reasons
>>>>> for the checksum mismatch:
>>>>> <https://trac.macports.org/wiki/MisbehavingServers>
>>>>> ***
>>>> 
>>>> And what does the HTML file contain?
>>> 
>>> How do I determine that?
>> 
>> Use "port distfiles ghostscript" to get the absolute path of the distfile, then open it in a text editor or feed it to cat or less or something.
> 
> --->  Distfiles for ghostscript
> [ghostscript-9.05.tar.gz] /opt/local/var/macports/distfiles/ghostscript/ghostscript-9.05.tar.gz

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That is the path to the file which MacPorts was expecting to be a gzip-compressed tar file, but it is in fact an HTML file on your system. Please display the contents of that HTML file by running the command:

cat /opt/local/var/macports/distfiles/ghostscript/ghostscript-9.05.tar.gz