> Well John,
> this is the error I get from archive manager on wheezy.
>
> tar: This does not look like a tar archive
> tar: Skipping to next header
> tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
>
Here is a linux test.
gentoo ~ # cd /tmp/
gentoo tmp # ls
gentoo tmp # mkdir test
gentoo tmp # cd test/
gentoo test # wget
http://dl.ivtvdriver.org/ivtv/firmware/ivtv-firmware.tar.gz --2014-05-08 12:28:16--
http://dl.ivtvdriver.org/ivtv/firmware/ivtv-firmware.tar.gz Resolving dl.ivtvdriver.org... 160.45.254.26
Connecting to dl.ivtvdriver.org|160.45.254.26|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 125526 (123K) [application/x-gzip]
Saving to: 'ivtv-firmware.tar.gz'
100%[===========================================>] 125,526
159KB/s in 0.8s
2014-05-08 12:28:18 (159 KB/s) - 'ivtv-firmware.tar.gz' saved [125526/125526]
gentoo test # tar -xzf ivtv-firmware.tar.gz
gentoo test # ls -al
total 382
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 11 May 8 12:28 .
drwxrwxrwt 5 root root 5 May 8 12:28 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 125526 Jul 1 2008 ivtv-firmware.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 100 root 6639 Feb 18 2007 license-end-user.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 100 root 8292 Feb 18 2007 license-oemihvisv.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 100 root 262144 May 26 2006 v4l-cx2341x-dec.fw
-rw-r--r-- 1 100 root 376836 Feb 17 2007 v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw
-rw-r--r-- 1 100 root 155648 May 26 2006 v4l-cx2341x-init.mpg
-rw-r--r-- 1 100 root 16382 Jul 1 2008 v4l-cx25840.fw
-rw-r--r-- 1 100 root 8192 Oct 6 2006 v4l-pvrusb2-24xxx-01.fw
-rw-r--r-- 1 100 root 8192 Jul 1 2006 v4l-pvrusb2-29xxx-01.fw
gentoo test # md5sum *
b9a871f1c569025be9c48a77b3515faf ivtv-firmware.tar.gz
e2b62737abe625441537901ceb15925d license-end-user.txt
00ce0f8b5fd9f48c5569505b7939aa2e license-oemihvisv.txt
305dba74bbe5905447add8883f3ecb68 v4l-cx2341x-dec.fw
9b39b3d3bba1ce2da40f82ef0c50ef48 v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw
0661f8b2693fe3123e6234557353eacc v4l-cx2341x-init.mpg
b3704908fd058485f3ef136941b2e513 v4l-cx25840.fw
ffed594f0edea15de8c19cfd13bc4adf v4l-pvrusb2-24xxx-01.fw
3b7288416144467369ed2b5b10cf931d v4l-pvrusb2-29xxx-01.fw
John
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