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‘Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers’ error when trying to untar

the problem: you try to untar a file and you get ‘Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers’

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One of the following can cause such behavior:

  • the file was not downloaded properly

  • after download, the file was not transferred to the target host using BINARY format

  • file was corrupted somehow during transfer

Download the file again and ensure you have done so in BINARY mode.