Mysterious message

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Sat, 2011-07-16 at 10:49 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Saturday 16 Jul 2011 10:32:03 g wrote:
> > hello anne,
> > 
> > On 07/16/2011 06:10 AM, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > <>
> > 
> > > gzip: /usr/share/man/man1/shutter.1.gz: not in gzip format
> > > 
> > > gzip: /usr/share/man/man1/shutter.1.gz: not in gzip format
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Should I delete shutter.1.gz?  What is it - malformed gzip or something
> > > else?
> > 
> > have you tried 'file' to see what i says?
> > 
> > have you tried "rpm -V" to verify?
> > 
> > also, using a hex editor will give you an idea of what file is.
> > 
> > if it fails "rpm -V", then by all means, delete and load anew.
> > 
> > 
> > hth.
> 
> File says it is "troff or preprocessor input text" - that's all I've got so 
> far.

Looks like an uncompressed man page (despite the .gz extension).
Probably an installation blip of some kind. I don't have it on my system
to check. Move the file to .../shutter.1 and (optionally) compress it.

poc