Checksum mismatch while installing gperf

[Ryan Schmidt]

Simon,

On Oct 13, 2009, at 06:40, Simon Cotter wrote:

> I am trying to install scipy and other python packages on my machine  
> (snow leopard, intel core duo), but I am repeatedly coming up  
> against the following error while trying to build one of the  
> dependencies, gperf:
>
> --->  Computing dependencies for gperf
> --->  Verifying checksum(s) for gperf
> Error: Checksum (md5) mismatch for gperf-3.0.4.tar.gz
> Error: Checksum (sha1) mismatch for gperf-3.0.4.tar.gz
> Error: Checksum (rmd160) mismatch for gperf-3.0.4.tar.gz
> Error: Target org.macports.checksum returned: Unable to verify file  
> checksums
> Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
>
> I have tried to clean it and install again a few times but to no  
> avail. I'm not sure if the file is corrupt or if there has been a  
> stealth upgrade, or if I am being stupid, but any help is appreciated.


Please clean out the mismatched distfile and try again:

sudo port clean --all gperf
sudo port install gperf

If it again doesn't work, it should print a line saying what server it  
downloaded the file from. Show us this output so we can investigate  
that server.

Also, you can investigate the distfile it downloaded. It's located in / 
opt/local/var/macports/distfiles/gperf/. It's supposed to be a gzipped  
tarball. Is it? Or is it perhaps an HTML page, or some other kind of  
file? What's in it?