https://community.splunk.com/t5/Installation/Unable-to-install-splunk-on-linux/m-p/516338#M6601 <P>Hi&nbsp;</P><P>I tried wget command to install splunk on azure cloud Linux VM. I found it is not installed in gzip format.</P><P>After running wget it gives me&nbsp;splunk-8.0.5-a1a6394cc5ae-linux-2.6-amd64.deb file but I am unable to tar that package.</P><P>I am assuming during installation package was not downloaded in .tar extension.</P><P>When I run&nbsp;</P><PRE>tar xvzf splunk_package_name.tgz</PRE><P>It says No such file or directory. Seems it is not in gzip format.</P><P>Can someone help me out on this!!</P><P>&nbsp;</P> Wed, 26 Aug 2020 17:55:00 GMT vikashmohan 2020-08-26T17:55:00Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Installation/Unable-to-install-splunk-on-linux/m-p/516338#M6601 <P>Hi&nbsp;</P><P>I tried wget command to install splunk on azure cloud Linux VM. I found it is not installed in gzip format.</P><P>After running wget it gives me&nbsp;splunk-8.0.5-a1a6394cc5ae-linux-2.6-amd64.deb file but I am unable to tar that package.</P><P>I am assuming during installation package was not downloaded in .tar extension.</P><P>When I run&nbsp;</P><PRE>tar xvzf splunk_package_name.tgz</PRE><P>It says No such file or directory. Seems it is not in gzip format.</P><P>Can someone help me out on this!!</P><P>&nbsp;</P> Wed, 26 Aug 2020 17:55:00 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Installation/Unable-to-install-splunk-on-linux/m-p/516338#M6601 vikashmohan 2020-08-26T17:55:00Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Installation/Unable-to-install-splunk-on-linux/m-p/516356#M6606 <P>I think you got wget URL after choosing .deb file. First you click on .tar in downloads that will give you link for .tar which you can extract in your linux machine.</P> Wed, 26 Aug 2020 19:01:19 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Installation/Unable-to-install-splunk-on-linux/m-p/516356#M6606 thambisetty 2020-08-26T19:01:19Z