Carrot DB- Unable to untar

Hello,

I am trying to download the carrot genome from http://apiaceae.njau.edu.cn/carrotdb/. It is a .tgz file and gives the following error when uncompressed.

[Tia@biopower2 Downloads]$ tar xvf carrot_genome.tgz
gzip: stdin has more than one entry--rest ignored
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

Error with gunzip

[Tia@biopower2 Downloads]$ gunzip -c carrot_genome.tgz
gzip: carrot_genome.tgz has more than one entry--rest ignored

Any insights are appreciated!

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updated 4.1 years ago by Ram

• written 11.3 years ago by tmart091 •

I downloaded the archive on windows and winRAR seems to think there is a password. I am wondering if this is intentional.

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written 11.3 years ago by apelin20

Hello. I renamed the files to .ZIP but as you said, they are password protected and it's intentional as we can infer because of the foot note: "Please send Email to us ( xiongaisheng@njau.edu.cn ) before you deal with these data". I wrote to different CarrotDB emails but they don't give me feedback so, It seems that carrot genome data is not really public. Do you had luck with the password?

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written 11.2 years ago by jomaldon •

Nope, same experience, they never responded. This is really sad.

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written 11.2 years ago by apelin20

3 answers

I tried this myself out of curiosity and I think there are a couple of issues. First, the file seems to have the wrong extension:

$ file carrot_genome.tgz
carrot_genome.tgz: Zip archive data, at least v1.0 to extract

So, maybe it is a zip file instead of gzip. For example,

$ file test.tgz
test.tgz: gzip compressed data, last modified: Mon Dec 29 13:54:29 2014, from Unix

When I tried to unzip it I did not get any errors but I was prompted for a username/password. Sorry, I did not want to register on the site to troubleshoot this issue further but hopefully that helps.

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written 11.3 years ago by SES