After downloading the file I got the CRC-error. $ bunzip2 -tvv xfree86-4.0-DLLs.tar.bz2 xfree86-4.0-DLLs.tar.bz2: [1: huff+mtf xfree86-4.0-DLLs.tar.bz2: data integrity (CRC) error in data You can use the `bzip2recover' program to *attempt* to recover data from undamaged sections of corrupted files.