FFmpeg: Failed to Extract

[scavops]

Redactions below are mine. For example, User paths have been replaced with ~

What were you trying to install (or what else went wrong)?

ffmpeg

What exactly did you do?

ran the copied command from webinstall.dev:

curl -sS https://webi.sh/ffmpeg | sh; \
source ~/.config/envman/PATH.env

What went wrong?

Command exited with error: Failed to extract ~/Downloads/webi/ffmpeg/6.1.1/ffmpeg-linux-x64.gz

Which OS did you try on?

• Mac
• Windows
• Linux

What type of computer (i.e. laptop, desktop, Raspberry Pi)?

• Laptop or Desktop (amd64 / x86-64)
• Raspberry Pi (ARM-64)
• Other (please specify, if you know)

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Trying to install ffmpeg on my TrueNAS Scale system. Full console output post-error below, including some investigatory commands to see if I got a valid executable after all (I did).
Possibly related to #1079 ?
I thought it was interesting that the version webi attempted to download does not match the downloaded version

    Failed to extract ~/Downloads/webi/ffmpeg/6.1.1/ffmpeg-linux-x64.gz
[11:34] ~ % cd Downloads/webi/ffmpeg/6.1.1
[11:36] ffmpeg/6.1.1 % ls
ffmpeg-linux-x64.gz
[11:36] ffmpeg/6.1.1 % gunzip ffmpeg-linux-x64.gz
[11:36] ffmpeg/6.1.1 % chmod +x ffmpeg-linux-x64
[11:36] ffmpeg/6.1.1 % ./ffmpeg-linux-x64
ffmpeg version 7.0.2-static https://johnvansickle.com/ffmpeg/  Copyright (c) 2000-2024 the FFmpeg developers
  built with gcc 8 (Debian 8.3.0-6)
  configuration: <<redacted, output as expected>>
  libavutil      59.  8.100 / 59.  8.100
  libavcodec     61.  3.100 / 61.  3.100
  libavformat    61.  1.100 / 61.  1.100
  libavdevice    61.  1.100 / 61.  1.100
  libavfilter    10.  1.100 / 10.  1.100
  libswscale      8.  1.100 /  8.  1.100
  libswresample   5.  1.100 /  5.  1.100
  libpostproc    58.  1.100 / 58.  1.100
Universal media converter
usage: ffmpeg [options] [[infile options] -i infile]... {[outfile options] outfile}...

Use -h to get full help or, even better, run 'man ffmpeg'

[detox-24]

Hello!

This is due to the fact that webi is not expected to handle a .gz compressed asset yet.

Initially, I was going to filter out the .gz asset and use the single static-binary as-is from the releases.

But AJ wants compressed static releases in the loop, so basically, we have to 'gunzip' the file in installer rather using the conventional 'tar' command.

I was starting to work on this, see #1068 for more details.

[detox-24]

The asset-fetcher works fine, what you're encountering here is a asset handling problem.

See #947, it is the exact same issue.

And about the version mismatch, it was a ambiguous versioning decision from the static releases repo.

I am not on my computer right now, or I could paste the exact contradiction text.

[coolaj86]

I believe this has been fixed.

[scavops]

Confirmed, thank you so much! ✅