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I am running into an issue I have never run into before. I am trying to install Nagios Core on Ubuntu 16.04.1 64bit. I have never installed it on this version before and thought i'd give it a go.

root@deadpool-VirtualBox:/tmp# tar zxvf nagios-plugins-2.1.2.tar.gz

gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

root@deadpool-VirtualBox:/tmp# tar zxvf nagios-plugins-2.1.2.tar
tar (child): nagios-plugins-2.1.2.tar: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

root@deadpool-VirtualBox:/tmp# mv nagios-plugins-2.1.2.tar.gz nagios-plugins-2.1.2.tar

root@deadpool-VirtualBox:/tmp# tar zxvf nagios-plugins-2.1.2.tar
gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
root@deadpool-VirtualBox:/tmp#


When I try to tar out the plugin I get the error above. I tried to rename the file to just tar and then I got a different error. I know renaming it has worked in the past, I am stuck and I know its something stupid and easy. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

It's probably just a corrupted file. Do you need 2.1.2 specifically? If not, you can download 2.2: https://nagios-plugins.org/download/nag ... 2.0.tar.gz

Here's the download link for 2.1.2: https://nagios-plugins.org/download/nag ... 1.2.tar.gz