Why can't I open the MEME distribution file? "This does not look like a tar archive" error
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CharlesEGrant
Mar 27, 2013, 6:51:40 PM3/27/13
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Several MEME users have reported trouble opening the MEME distribution file. When they try to run 'tar' they get an error message like:
This can be fixed by explicitly running gunzip on the downloaded file before running tar. For example:
The problem is that with some download clients the distribution files will get re-compressed during transmission. Some versions of tar can recognize this and run decompression twice automatically. Some versions of tar don't recognize this, and give up with the above error message after running the first round of decompression.
This does not look like a tar archive
This can be fixed by explicitly running gunzip on the downloaded file before running tar. For example:
gunzip meme_4.9.0_4.tar.gz
tar xf meme_4.9.0_4.tar
The problem is that with some download clients the distribution files will get re-compressed during transmission. Some versions of tar can recognize this and run decompression twice automatically. Some versions of tar don't recognize this, and give up with the above error message after running the first round of decompression.
James Johnson
Apr 10, 2013, 11:06:27 PM4/10/13
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The server configuration on ebi.edu.au has been changed to disable gzip compression on tar.gz and tar.Z and tgz files so hopefully this issue will not be a problem any more.
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