Thread: Instructions for patching firmware 3.12.1
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Old 02-19-2015, 10:41 PM   #32
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Originally Posted by flip1314 View Post
I am getting this error when I try to run the .sh in ubuntu. Could you suggest a reason?

gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
Cleaning up /tmp/patch32lsb_om33A6Kv
flip@flip-MacBookAir:~/Downloads/patch_kobo_3121$

I have confirmed the zip of the update and it is valid. Not sure what else could be the problem.
It seems like something is wrong with unzip. If you run:
Code:
unzip -p kobo-update-3.12.1.zip KoboRoot.tgz | tar tvz
you should get a list of the files in the KoboRoot.tgz.
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