Hi Praveen, In the past I've downloaded some Spark tarballs that weren't actually gzipped. Try using "tar xvf" instead of "tar xvzf" to extract the files.
Fred From: Praveen Kumar Muthuswamy <muthusamy...@gmail.com> To: dev@spark.apache.org Date: 05/06/2015 07:18 PM Subject: unable to extract tgz files downloaded from spark Hi I have been trying to install latest spark verison and downloaded the .tgz files(ex spark-1.3.1.tgz). But, I could not extract them. It complains of invalid tar format. Has any seen this issue ? Thanks Praveen
