LibreELEC-RPi4.arm-10.0.1.img.gz - This does not look like a tar archive

  • It confused me that i should extract the .tar.gz, but rpi-imager app was able to image the .tar.gz and .img was not needed to be extracted by me.

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    # curl -L -O -C - https://releases.libreelec.tv/LibreELEC-RPi4.arm-10.0.1.img.gz
    ** Resuming transfer from byte position 128371980
    % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
    Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
    100 314 0 314 0 0 2218 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 2226
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    # tar -xzf LibreELEC-RPi4.arm-10.0.1.img.gz
    tar: This does not look like a tar archive
    tar: Skipping to next header
    tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
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    # file LibreELEC-RPi4.arm-10.0.1.img.gz
    LibreELEC-RPi4.arm-10.0.1.img.gz: gzip compressed data, was "LibreELEC-RPi4.arm-10.0.1.img", last modified: Fri Oct 29 23:54:25 2021, max compression, from Unix, original size modulo 2^32 57566822

    It may be handy to mention at https://libreelec.tv/downloads/raspberry/ various way to apply that archive/file.

    For example you can mention Linux FOSS utility: rpi-imager , it is by default in repository. https://github.com/raspberrypi/rpi-imager

    And on Windows, you can mention on that page https://sourceforge.net/projects/win32…latest/download

    Under these apps mention that extracting .tar.gz is not needed.

    :thumbup:

    Thank you