Install Nodejs on Ubuntu Server can't unzip tar

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Trying to install node on AWS Ubuntu server instance. I did it few days before, but today it will not let me unzip the file no matter what! You can see the errors in the picture.

Does anybody know why is it doing this and how could i fix it?

wget https://nodejs.org/dist/v6.9.1/node-v6.9.1.tar.gz
tar-xvf node-v6.9.1.tar.gz

`tar zxvf node-v6.9.1.tar.gz`, you need `z` to uncompress gzip — ymonad, Dec 02 '16 at 08:15
@ymonad it's likely the file is not complete due to wget crash — zerkms, Dec 02 '16 at 08:16
oops, then try using another command such as `curl` instead of wget — ymonad, Dec 02 '16 at 08:17
and I forgot that nowadays some `tar` command won't need `z` to extract `tar.gz`. — ymonad, Dec 02 '16 at 08:18

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:22

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As a workaround i installed node with curl using these exact 2 commands
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curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_6.x | sudo -E bash -
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs

edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:22

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answered Dec 02 '16 at 08:26

Cristian Muscalu

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