Cannot Unzip a .tar.gz file

So, I am trying to install apache tomcat, upon me trying to unzip the tar file i am getting this error.

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

I am trying to unzip it using the following command:tar xf apache-tomcat-9.0.10.tar.gz

I downloaded the file using this curl command:

curl -O 
2

2 Answers

found that your gz file is probably just a html page:

>cat apache-tomcat-9.0.10.tar.gz
><!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
><html><head>
><title>404 Not Found</title>
></head><body>
><h1>Not Found</h1>
><p>The requested URL /pub/software/apache/tomcat/tomcat-9/v9.0.10/bin/apache->tomcat-9.0.10.tar.gz was not found on this server.</p>
><hr>
><address>Apache/2.2.22 (Fedora) Server at mirror.cc.columbia.edu Port 80</address>
></body></html>

The problem is that the URL is incorrect. Try:

curl -O 

or some other mirror for version 9.0.10

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