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Tar Error [cannot be opened: not directory]

I made some tar gnome GUI archive on Ubuntu, but when I try to extract them

tar zxvf archive_name

I am getting the following error

Cannot open: Not a directory

What is the problem?

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Try to extract the archive to an empty directory; any existing files / directories in the extraction target will usually cause problems if the names overlap.



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I faced the same problem (for every file in the archive) and I solved it by adding ".tar.gz" to the archive file name, as I was able to download the PECL package without the file extension:

mv pecl_http pecl_http.tar.gz


Then I was able to issue the following command to extract the contents of the archive:

tar -xzf pecl_http.tar.gz
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Try using instead tar -zxvf archive_name

. I believe the command format has changed and it now requires z (unzip) x (extract) v (verbose) f (filename ...) as switches instead of plain text. The error comes from tar trying to do something with the zxvf file, which of course doesn't exist.

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