[Solved]tar: This does not look like a tar archive

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HittiittitiH
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[Solved]tar: This does not look like a tar archive

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[Solved] viewtopic.php?p=181146#p181146

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I download the tar.gz 2 files.

I try to open them and I get an error.

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tar: This does not look like a tar archive
tar: Skipping to next header
tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
I cannot extract what ever inside to install.

Linux Mint Release Linux Mint 22.1 Xia 64-bit.
Last edited by HittiittitiH on Mon Aug 18, 2025 6:25 pm, edited 1 time in total.
dcoke22
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Re: tar: This does not look like a tar archive

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Improperly compressed 1.17.7 archives

That thread is probably relevant.
HittiittitiH
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Re: tar: This does not look like a tar archive

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dcoke22 wrote:
Mon Aug 18, 2025 6:08 pm
Improperly compressed 1.17.7 archives

That thread is probably relevant.
This is with makemkv-oss-1.18.1.tar.gz & makemkv-bin-1.18.1.tar.gz .
Woodstock
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Re: tar: This does not look like a tar archive

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It isn't a TAR until you remove the gzip encoding that makes it smaller. Kind of like zip, but it isn't.

First extract the TAR file from the tar.gz file (gunzip makemkv-bin-1.18.1.tar.gz) then you can use TAR to break the files out.
HittiittitiH
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Re: tar: This does not look like a tar archive

Post by HittiittitiH »

Woodstock wrote:
Mon Aug 18, 2025 6:11 pm
It isn't a TAR until you remove the gzip encoding that makes it smaller. Kind of like zip, but it isn't.

First extract the TAR file from the tar.gz file (gunzip makemkv-bin-1.18.1.tar.gz) then you can use TAR to break the files out.
Nice. Thank you.
HittiittitiH
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Re: tar: This does not look like a tar archive

Post by HittiittitiH »

Woodstock wrote:
Mon Aug 18, 2025 6:11 pm
It isn't a TAR until you remove the gzip encoding that makes it smaller. Kind of like zip, but it isn't.

First extract the TAR file from the tar.gz file (gunzip makemkv-bin-1.18.1.tar.gz) then you can use TAR to break the files out.
You seem sophisticated.

What about this?
admin1@ItsAlive:~/Downloads/Makemkv/makemkv-bin-1.18.1$ cd /home/admin1/Downloads/ffmpeg-7.1.1
admin1@ItsAlive:~/Downloads/ffmpeg-7.1.1$ ./configure --prefix=/tmp/ffmpeg --enable-static --disable-shared --enable-pic
nasm/yasm not found or too old. Use --disable-x86asm for a crippled build.

If you think configure made a mistake, make sure you are using the latest
version from Git. If the latest version fails, report the problem to the
ffmpeg-user@ffmpeg.org mailing list or IRC #ffmpeg on irc.libera.chat.
Include the log file "ffbuild/config.log" produced by configure as this will help
solve the problem.
HittiittitiH
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Re: tar: This does not look like a tar archive

Post by HittiittitiH »

HittiittitiH wrote:
Mon Aug 18, 2025 6:32 pm
Woodstock wrote:
Mon Aug 18, 2025 6:11 pm
It isn't a TAR until you remove the gzip encoding that makes it smaller. Kind of like zip, but it isn't.

First extract the TAR file from the tar.gz file (gunzip makemkv-bin-1.18.1.tar.gz) then you can use TAR to break the files out.
You seem sophisticated.

What about this?
admin1@ItsAlive:~/Downloads/Makemkv/makemkv-bin-1.18.1$ cd /home/admin1/Downloads/ffmpeg-7.1.1
admin1@ItsAlive:~/Downloads/ffmpeg-7.1.1$ ./configure --prefix=/tmp/ffmpeg --enable-static --disable-shared --enable-pic
nasm/yasm not found or too old. Use --disable-x86asm for a crippled build.

If you think configure made a mistake, make sure you are using the latest
version from Git. If the latest version fails, report the problem to the
ffmpeg-user@ffmpeg.org mailing list or IRC #ffmpeg on irc.libera.chat.
Include the log file "ffbuild/config.log" produced by configure as this will help
solve the problem.
Ok, installed both nasm/yasm.

All is good for now. Thank you.
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