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"tar is bad" error
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I saw this once when I installed different sets of GNU freeware from the SGI site. Irix has a version of tar (in /sbin, I believe) that doesn't support the same set of command line options (-z for gzip tars, -j for bzip2 tars) that GNU tar does. I believe I had an incompatible version of glibc installed for the installed version of GNU tar, and the GNU /usr/freeware/bin directory was earlier than /sbin in the path, which triggered the 'tar is bad' error.
There are several options: make sure GNU tar and glibc are in sync; force the use of Irix tar (since you're using the software manager) by removing any references to other versions of tar from the path; or manually extracting the tardist that you're trying to install into a working directory with gunzip and some form of working tar, and then pointing the software manager to the working directory instead of the tardist.
Hope this helps.
There are several options: make sure GNU tar and glibc are in sync; force the use of Irix tar (since you're using the software manager) by removing any references to other versions of tar from the path; or manually extracting the tardist that you're trying to install into a working directory with gunzip and some form of working tar, and then pointing the software manager to the working directory instead of the tardist.
Hope this helps.
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