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tar: This does not look like a tar archive tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors

I have downloaded a tar file, but when i extract using -xvf option the following error appears.

tar: This does not look like a tar archive
tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
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sebastian
asked May 12 2017

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Its the option to be used for extracting tar package. Check the size of the package to verify if that package is valid. Because I have downloaded many files with 2KB or 5KB of no use.

So please check with that. Try from other link to download the respective package.

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jagannatharumugam
asked May 12 2017
edited Oct 05 2018
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