Weird issue: unable to extract fmod engine linux package 2.02.16 to 2.02.14 on fedora linux 38

FMOD Engine
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Hi there, i downloaded the fmod engine linux package and I am trying to extract it so as to use it in a project which already uses fmod on window.
However I have a very strange issue: i am unable to extract the files. I tried via the gnome files and via the command line but i can not. Any feedback is more than welcome.

edit: i am not able to decompress 2.02.16, 2.02.15, 2.02.14 but I decompressed 2.02.12 and 2.02.13, could it be a release issue? i guess it is unlikely that I would be the first to report a broken package!

2

Hi,

Unfortunately, I was not able to reproduce the issue on Fedora 38 and was able to successfully extract the Linux engine.
What happens when you try to extract the file? Are there any logs or more information about why it is failing?

3

Hi, i am sorry for the late reply, i haven’t looked into it since august. I get a very strange behavior that has never happened to me before. I extract the archive and i get again the same archive. either via the gnome UI using the mouse either from the the terminal with tar -xf fmod.tar.gz it just doesn’t uncompres/extract. i just tested 2.02.17 as well

4

Hi,

Could you try the following:

  1. Download the Linux install
  2. Extract the Download fmodstudio20217linux.tar.gz
  3. Extract the created file fmodstudio20217linux (1).tar.gz

Let me know if this extracts the api correctly.

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Hi, 2.0.18 extract as expected.

Here is what happens if i try to extract 2.0.17

pattakosn@fedora 22:59:47 ~/ASD : 
ls
fmodstudioapi20217linux.tar.gz
pattakosn@fedora 22:59:47 ~/ASD : 
gunzip fmodstudioapi20217linux.tar.gz 
pattakosn@fedora 22:59:55 ~/ASD : 
ls
fmodstudioapi20217linux.tar
pattakosn@fedora 22:59:56 ~/ASD : 
tar -xf fmodstudioapi20217linux.tar 
pattakosn@fedora 22:59:59 ~/ASD : 
ls
fmodstudioapi20217linux.tar  fmodstudioapi20217linux.tar.gz
pattakosn@fedora 23:00:00 ~/ASD : 
ls -lh
total 143M
-rw-r--r--. 1 pattakosn pattakosn 72M Oct 13 22:59 fmodstudioapi20217linux.tar
-rw-r--r--. 1 pattakosn pattakosn 72M Aug 20 13:36 fmodstudioapi20217linux.tar.gz
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6

Hi,

Could you try running gunzip on the fmodstudioapi20217linux.tar file, the engine files should be held within there.

7

I do not understand what you want me to try.

8

Hi,

Apologies for the delayed response.

In the example, you extract the files from fmodstudioapi20217linux.tar.gz which returns fmodstudioapi20217linux.tar. Could you please try extracting from fmodstudioapi20217linux.tar and let me know if the engine files are extracted?