Title: Untar problem
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Untar problem

 *  [pezastic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pezastic/)
 * (@pezastic)
 * [21 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/untar-problem/)
 * When running the command “tar -zxvf wordpress-1.2.2.tar.gz” via shell to my remote
   webhost after uploading WP tarball, I got the following error:
 * tar: This does not look like a tar archive
    tar: Skipping to next header tar:
   Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers tar: Error exit delayed from previous
   errors

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 *  Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/)
 * (@macmanx)
 * [21 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/untar-problem/#post-123794)
 * Un-tar it on your computer. It’s not that big of an archive to upload when it’s
   decompressed.
 *  Thread Starter [pezastic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pezastic/)
 * (@pezastic)
 * [21 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/untar-problem/#post-123872)
 * Thanks. That’s what I did. (I just wanted to bring this to someone’s attention.)

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 * Last reply from: [pezastic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pezastic/)
 * Last activity: [21 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/untar-problem/#post-123872)
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