issues in installing PHP 5

[raghu_n]

Hi, i am installing PHP 5, downloaded "php-5.0.4.tar.gz" to my root folder (os is linux redhat 9.0) from php.net site..

i want to unzip above file and install php 5 ..so executed command "gunzip php-5.0.4.tar.gz" ..it is throwing below error ..

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gunzip: php-5.0.4.tar.gz: invalid compressed data--crc error

gunzip: php-5.0.4.tar.gz: invalid compressed data--length error

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how to resolve this problem ..

[bubblenut]

Sounds like the download is bad. Check it's md5 against the appropriate one on php.net. To do this do openssl md5 < [the file]. Just as a side note, I would probably use tar as it's tarred up as well.

tar -zxf [the file]
or
tar -zxvf [the file]
to see what's happening.