Summary

The standalone downloads from the JIRA software website for versions 7.3.5 and 7.3.6 are gzipped twice.

The Mac version of tar will handle this without issue and a tar -zxf will work as expected. However, on linux tar will fail to unzip and untar the download.

Environment

• CentOS 7 (all linux versions most likely)

Steps to Reproduce

1. Download standalone JIRA Software tar.gz
2. Attempt to extract using tar -zxf

Expected Results

File is extracted to directory

Actual Results

[atlassian@cent-nat ~]$ tar -zxf atlassian-jira-software-7.3.5.tar.gz 
tar: This does not look like a tar archive
tar: Skipping to next header
tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
[atlassian@cent-nat ~]$ 

Workaround

Use gunzip and then rename to get tar working:

[atlassian@cent-nat ~]$ gunzip atlassian-jira-software-7.3.6.tar.gz
[atlassian@cent-nat ~]$ mv atlassian-jira-software-7.3.6.tar atlassian-jira-software-7.3.6.tar.gz
[atlassian@cent-nat ~]$ tar -zxf atlassian-jira-software-7.3.6.tar.gz