When attempting to install BOINC I am seeing the following:

[root@arturo seti]# sh boinc_4.43_i686-pc-linux-gnu.sh
tar: Skipping to next header
tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers

gunzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--crc error

gunzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--length error
tar: Read 9586 bytes from -
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

Which results in:

[root@arturo BOINC]# ./boinc
Segmentation fault


What to do about this???

Looks like a bad (corrupted) archive file.
Try to download it again.

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I have exactly the same problem with boinc 5.2.8 and redhat 9.0

I download the .sh again...same result

¿another idea?

Thnks

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I have exactly the same problem with boinc 5.2.8 and redhat 9.0

I download the .sh again...same result

You can try to download and unpack the older version 4.43.
If this don't work, it should be a problem on something else...

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Those tar and gunzip errors were reported to be caused by the original download of the installer being done in ascii mode as opposed to binary mode. The installer "looks like" an ascii file to some browsers due to it's .sh extension and it's first few lines being plain text. But after those first few lines (a shell script) that do the extraction and installation, the file is all binary. Finding a way to force binary mode for the download of the installer may correct this problem.