Re: tar.gz incorrect firmat?

From: Darin Lory (darin.lory_at_gmail.com)
Date: Wed Dec 05 2018 - 15:01:08 CST

Franceso,

Just do a tar xvf on the NAMD_Git-2018-12-04_Linux-x86_
64-multicore-CUDA.tar.gz

It's not compressed and only a tar archive.

file NAMD_Git-2018-12-04_Linux-x86_64-multicore-CUDA.tar.gz

-Darin

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On Wed, Dec 5, 2018 at 3:53 PM Francesco Pietra <chiendarret_at_gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi all
> I am trying to decompress in my home at the cluster last night namd buiding
>
> tar -zxvf NAMD_Git-2018-12-04_Linux-x86_64-multicore-CUDA.tar.gz
> gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
> tar: Child returned status 1
> tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
>
> $which gzip
> /usr/bin/gzip
> $ gzip -V
> gzip 1.5
>
>
> On my laptop the tar.gz opens as if it where a tar.bz2, but this also
> fails on the cluster
>
> thanks for advice
> francesco pietra
> by the way, a non-CUDA tarball of a few days ago opened correctly in my
> home at the cluster with "tar -zxvf"
>
>

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