Ubuntu : This does not look like a tar archive
The file you downloaded was a .tar.gz
. (A compressed .tar
file)
You can use
tar -zxvf casperjs.tar
But actually you should have downloaded it as a .tgz
like this:
sudo wget -O casperjs.tar github.com/n1k0/casperjs/tarball/1.0.0 –O casperjc.tgz
sudo tar -zxvf casperjs.tgz
The -z
stands for:
-z, --gzip, --ungzip filter the archive through gzip
to see what you got:
file casperjs.tar
and then to see its content, if it IS a tar file:
tar tvf casperjs.tar
tar tvzf casperjs.tar #if that was a gzip-ed tar file
tar tvbf casperjs.tar #if that was a bzip-ed tar file
tar tvZf casperjs.tar #if that was a compress-ed tar file #now very unlikely...
#note that after the 'f', you need to have a SEPARATOR (space, or tab) followed by the FILENAME.
#ie, you can't place an option after the f
#ex: "tar tvfz something.tar.gz", would try to open file "z" instead and find "something.tar.gz" inside it...
then change the 't' into 'x' to extract (I recommend to first use 't', though...)