15/01/2016

Drush 8 Unable to untar

Error

You receive error when trying update Drupal 8 in command line with Drush 8

Unable to untar /tmp/file/path/drupal_file.tmp

Solution

Download bsdtar.exe and copy to bin folder in GnuWin32 or Cygwin.

Dont forget put something like
C:\cygwin64\bin
or
C:\Program Files (x86)\gnuwin32\bin
in your System path variable.

Test

Open new Command Prompt and write:

bsdtar

1 comment:

Unknown said...

bsdtar is in the gnuWin32 Libarchive package and available on the page : http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/libarchive.htm

1) Download the file
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/gnuwin32/libarchive-2.4.12-1-bin.zip
2) uncompress it
3) bsdtar.exe in the bin directory

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