gzip: transmute.Linux.gz: invalid compressed data--format violated

Question

[Nelo]

I want to unzip transmute.Linux.gz file by using gunzip -f transmute.Linux.gz command, but something wrong occurs to me, as shown below:

gzip: transmute.Linux.gz: invalid compressed data--format violated

Answer 1

[GenoMax]

What do you get with gunzip -t transmute.Linux.gz? File is likely corrupt.

[Nelo]

Hey thnks for replying I got it You are right ,the file was corrupted

[HaroonPakistan]

how did you know about it?

[Dolly]

The 3 .gz files (xtract.[platform].gz, transmute.[platform].gz, rchive.[platform].gz) are not downloaded correctly using install-edirect.sh. Download these files manually from the NCBI EntrezDirect ftp site: ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/entrezdirect/

Extract file from these: gunzip -f *.gz

Change permission using chmod +x for all 3 files.

It works after that.