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I have an archive file with .tar.gz as extension grabbed from http://www.oracle.com (it is the Java Runtime Environment). I tried to decompress it using tar -xvf and tar -zxvf and it says gzip: stdin: not in gzip format. I can open it without any kind of trouble in WinRar on Windows, but it doesn't say much about the type of container it uses.

I looked up in google and some people were saying that those archives were badly compressed and needs to be fixed, but I can't figure out how to "fix it".

Is it possible to find more information about it using some kind of command in Linux? Thanks.

The file I am talking about is this one: http://download.oracle.com/otn-pub/java/jdk/7u67-b01/server-jre-7u67-linux-x64.tar.gz

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  • Are you sure you mean ".gz.tar"? Normally the ".tar" comes before the ".gz". Please edit your question if this is just a mistake.
    – lzam
    Commented Sep 22, 2014 at 3:16

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You use the file command - which should tell you what it is. However, grabbing the file from that link downloads an error page, and I don't have an oracle login.

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It was a really silly mistake, I was expecting a .tar.gz but as I didn't accept the ToS of Oracle it downloaded a html saying something in the lines of "you must accept the conditions before accepting the file", I was actually trying to decompress that (which wasn't a valid file).

It worked on Windows because I did accept the ToS in the page itself.

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