Re: [Chicken-users] Re: Q: Installing extensions & Source code

[Michael Erdmann]

Johannes Groedem wrote:
> * Michael Erdmann <address@hidden>:
>
>
> > address@hidden:~/egg> chicken-setup  loop
> >   mkdir loop.egg.dir
> >   gunzip -c ../loop.egg | tar xvf -
>
>
> Perhaps you have downloaded them with a browser than automatically
> decompresses them for you, leaving them as plain tar archives rather
> than tar.gz archives?
I am not sure how this has happend, but after compressing
the *.egg file it works?

> By the way, chicken-setup can download eggs for you (as of some recent
> version), provided they're available from the Chicken homepage:
>
>  $ chicken-setup loop
>
>  The extension loop does not exists.
>  Do you want to download it ? (yes/no) [yes] 

Interresting feature.

>