Manually isntalling Boxee

[HolyJaw]

I posted this in the boxee for mac help section on accident so here's a cut.paste for anyone who might be able to help me.

I got the .frappliance.tar.gz from the atv-usb Google Code Source site, but I can't untar it on my computer, or on the atv.

via Terminal - ssh session:
-bash-2.05b$ tar -xzf ~/BoxeeLauncher.frappliance.tar.gz -C /staging/
tar: This does not look like a tar archive
tar: Skipping to next header
tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers
tar: Read 8758 bytes from /Users/frontrow/BoxeeLauncher.frappliance.tar.gz
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

Trying to run the install.sh doesn't return anything, even though I changed the code to reflect the fact that I have the tar.gz file directly in the ~ directory of atv.

From install.sh:
# check that staging directory exists
if [ -d "/staging" ]; then
echo " * installing ${PACKAGE}"

Anyways, help would be appreciated.

[davilla]

I would re-download it. The file at googlecode is a proper tar.gz format.

[HolyJaw]

So I redownloaded it, same sequence of events. Can't always rely on Terminal when I'm a pretty noobish nobby with Unix commands so I tried the good old ArchiveUtility.app

BoxeeLauncher.frappliance.tar.gz
---> BoxeeLauncher.frappliance.tar
---> BoxeeLauncher.frappliance.tar.cpgz
---> BoxeeLauncher.frappliance2.tar

A google search says cpgz files are CPIO Compression files, but wtf does that mean for me? So confused...

Tried Expanding using Stuffit 13, and it gave me the .tar (from the .tar.gz), and then it wouldn't touch the .tar.
So.... er, I don't know.

EDIT:::::
Got it! Instead of right click>save as on the
http://code.google.com/p/atvusb-creator/source/browse/trunk/atvusb-creator/payloads/patchstick/plugins/BoxeeLauncher/?r=20 page
I had to click the actual file and "View Raw File" from
http://code.google.com/p/atvusb-creator/source/browse/trunk/atvusb-creator/payloads/patchstick/plugins/BoxeeLauncher/BoxeeLauncher.frappliance.tar.gz?r=20
AWESOME.