Improperly compressed 1.17.7 archives

[loucipher]

Seems the 1.17.7 release isn't packaged properly.

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$ tar xvf makemkv-bin-1.17.7.tar.gz 
tar: This does not look like a tar archive
tar: Skipping to next header
tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors

However, if gzip -d it first,

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$ gzip -d makemkv-bin-1.17.7.tar.gz 

$ tar xvf makemkv-bin-1.17.7.tar 
makemkv-bin-1.17.7/
makemkv-bin-1.17.7/Makefile
makemkv-bin-1.17.7/bin/
makemkv-bin-1.17.7/bin/arm64/
makemkv-bin-1.17.7/bin/arm64/makemkvcon
makemkv-bin-1.17.7/bin/armhf/
makemkv-bin-1.17.7/bin/armhf/makemkvcon
makemkv-bin-1.17.7/bin/i386/
makemkv-bin-1.17.7/bin/i386/makemkvcon
makemkv-bin-1.17.7/bin/amd64/
makemkv-bin-1.17.7/bin/amd64/makemkvcon
makemkv-bin-1.17.7/src/
makemkv-bin-1.17.7/src/eula_en_linux.txt
makemkv-bin-1.17.7/src/share/
makemkv-bin-1.17.7/src/share/appdata.tar
makemkv-bin-1.17.7/src/share/blues.policy
makemkv-bin-1.17.7/src/share/blues.jar
makemkv-bin-1.17.7/src/ask_eula.sh

It works fine. Same for the oss tar.gz. Not a big deal, and a utility like Ark handles it fine, but with the CLI tar utility, it fails. Something to watch out for on the next release, and an FYI for anyone having issues.

(Side note, this is specific to this release, nothing wrong with my tar command. Works fine with previous releases such as 1.17.6)

[timsoft]

I get the same issue. thanks for the work-around. The files can also be manually extracted using 7zip gui.

[demon]

You need to run

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tar zxf [.tar.gz file name]

for a gzip'd file.

[FeRDNYC]

You need to run

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tar zxf [.tar.gz file name]

for a gzip'd file.

You don't, any remotely modern GNU tar will auto-detect compressed archives; an explicit z or j or J hasn't been necessary when extracting since like the mid-2000s. When creating the archive, sure, but tar's x-mode is smart. You'd have to be using some ancient BSD tar (or, knowing Apple, probably the one bundled with even current macOS versions) for it to actually require an archive format specified on extraction.

That being said, I had no issues with extracting either makemkv-oss-1.17.7.tar.gz or makemkv-bin-1.17.7.tar.gz using 'tar xf $THEFILE'.