Title: Problems unzipping WordPress…
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Problems unzipping WordPress…

 *  [jjfletch](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jjfletch/)
 * (@jjfletch)
 * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-unzipping-wordpress/)
 * Can someone help? I’ve downloaded the tar.gz file, and
 * gunzip < file.tar.gz | xvf –
 * yields: gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
 * while
 * tar xvzf file.tar.gz
 * yields: gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
    tar: Child returned status 1 tar: Error
   exit delayed from previous errors
 * Help is greatly appreciated. 🙂

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 *  [Cypher](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cypher/)
 * (@cypher)
 * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-unzipping-wordpress/#post-152757)
 * Please grab the *.ZIP version and use that, there was a thread previously about
   the *.TAR.GZ not being good.
 * Regards

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 * Last activity: [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-unzipping-wordpress/#post-152757)
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