mxcl/homebrew — Issue #9461: possible issues with tar - issues installing with brew
Author: pmorissette
Created: 2012-01-06 22:38:02+00:00
State: open

Hey all,

Had a hard time installing Homebrew because my tar version (1.13.25) didn't have the --strip command. I ended up git cloning and creating a symlink. Now, when I try installing wget for example, it downloads the file, but then can't extract it.

This is the error message I get:

/usr/bin/tar: This does not look like a tar archive
/usr/bin/tar: Skipping to next header
/usr/bin/tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers
/usr/bin/tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
Error: Failure while executing: /usr/bin/tar xf /Users/phil/Library/Caches/Homebrew/wget-1.13.4.tar.bz2

Now it seems to me that my tar version might be out of date or something, but I can't find any way to update it.

I am on OS 10.6.8 and have XCode 4.

Any suggestions?