Re: Problems with .tar file

["E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)" <tgakem@sg10.chem.tue.nl>]

> 
>     Hello, I write from Spain and I'm novice in Linux World.
> 
>     I have a problem processing  .tar file. When I write command "tar
> xvf <file>.tar" to extract the file qt-1_42_tar.tar, then computer
> return then next error message:
> 
>         tar: Hmm, this doesn`t look like a tar file
>         tar: Skipping to next file header
>         tar: Skipping to next file header
>         tar: Only read 1285 bytes from archive qt-1_42_tar.tar
>         tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
> 

The problem is that tar does not recognize it as a tar file.  Try

file qt-1_42_tar.tar

to see what type of file it really is.  Maybe it is a gzipped tar file,
in which case you need to use `tar xzvf qt-1_42_tar.tar'.  Another
possibility is that you downloaded it in text mode instead of binary
mode.  In that case you need to download it again.

HTH,
Eric Meijer

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