RPi3 w/ Stretch cannot extract tarball

[bkenobi]

I have a tarball (file.tgz) that I need to extract. I tested the file with 7zip on Win7 and it checks ok. When I try to extract on my RPi3 with Stretch, it fails.

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pi@raspberrypi:~ $ tar -xvzf file.tgz

gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

I copied the same file over to my RPi1 running Jessie and it tested good. Is there something I'm missing? I have the system up to date as I just created the OS this morning including all updates. The image is "2017-11-29-raspbian-stretch-lite.img" in case it matters.

[DougieLawson]

Try
tar xavf somefile.tgz

[bkenobi]

I get the same result with that set of options. RPi1 w/ Jessie works, RPi3 w/ Stretch fails (same output).

[pcmanbob]

Well stretch lite based on same image and resonantly up to date just ran tar xvzf RPLCD-0.4.0.tar.gz to test it and it unzipped and created directories and files ok.

So it suggests the file is at fault

what file and from were ?

[DougieLawson]

Check the sha256sum against the value published at: https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/raspbian/

[n67]

Check the sha256sum against the value published at: https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/raspbian/

I doubt that OP's "file.tgz" has anything to do with anything at raspberrypi.org/downloads.

[bkenobi]

The file is a program I'm downloading from a git repository. I downloaded the file on Windows and tested it in 7zip and it shows good. I downloaded it on RPi3 with Stretch and it gives an error. I transferred the file to Windows from the RPi3 and tested with 7zip and it is good. That means that the file must be downloading correctly but for some reason the RPi3 can't extract it. Any other thoughts?

I can't imagine the issue is the file, but the file is located here:
https://github.com/Bounz/HomeGenie-BE/r ... 15_all.tgz

[rpdom]

It looks like the file is a .tar, not a .tgz Trying to extract it with tar xzvf ... gives an error, but tar xvf ... works on my Linux laptop. I haven't tested it on a Pi yet.

[SurferTim]

I downloaded your file and extracted it with this:

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tar -xvf homegenie_1.1.15_all.tgz

[bkenobi]

Just to verify that things weren't getting corrupted when transferred between systems, I did a shasum on the RPi3, RPi1, and Windows and all 3 are identical. I am now confident the issue is not the file.

I tried extracting with your command line but it still gives an error on Stretch. I tried on Jessie and it works.

[SurferTim]

My bad. Didn't work with RPi3/Stretch.

[bkenobi]

Strange. I renamed the file to a ".tar" extension and it was able to extract on Stretch. There must be a difference between the two versions of tar then?

Jessie = 1.27.1
Stretch = 1.29