scrcpy-linux-v3.0.tar.gz is not gzipped as claimed by the file name

[sedrik]

Environment

• OS: Ubuntu 24.04
• Scrcpy version: 3.0
• Installation method: github release download
• Device model:
• Android version: not applicable

Describe the bug

Based on the tar.gz file ending it is assumed that the tarball is gzipped, but it turns out that it is not as evident by the output bellow.

~/Downloads
❯ sha256sum scrcpy-linux-v3.0.tar.gz
06cb74e22f758228c944cea048b78e42b2925c2affe2b5aca901cfd6a649e503  scrcpy-linux-v3.0.tar.gz

~/Downloads
❯ cat SHA256SUMS.txt
800044c62a94d5fc16f5ab9c86d45b1050eae3eb436514d1b0d2fe2646b894ea  scrcpy-server-v3.0
06cb74e22f758228c944cea048b78e42b2925c2affe2b5aca901cfd6a649e503  scrcpy-linux-v3.0.tar.gz
7cbf8d7a6ebfdca7b3b161e29a481c11088305f3e0a89d28e8e62f70c7bd0028  scrcpy-win32-v3.0.zip
dfbe8a8fef6535197acc506936bfd59d0aa0427e9b44fb2e5c550eae642f72be  scrcpy-win64-v3.0.zip
5db9821918537eb3aaf0333cdd05baf85babdd851972d5f1b71f86da0530b4bf  scrcpy-macos-v3.0.tar.gz

~/Downloads
❯ tar -xvzf scrcpy-linux-v3.0.tar.gz

gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

~/Downloads
❯ tar -xvf scrcpy-linux-v3.0.tar.gz
scrcpy-linux-v3.0/
scrcpy-linux-v3.0/scrcpy-server
scrcpy-linux-v3.0/icon.png
scrcpy-linux-v3.0/scrcpy
scrcpy-linux-v3.0/adb
scrcpy-linux-v3.0/scrcpy.1
scrcpy-linux-v3.0/scrcpy_bin

[rom1v]

Oh, thank you. Good catch!

I thought that tar inferred the compression from the file extension when the flag was not explicit, that's not true.

Fixed by 36574d2 🚀

[sedrik]

Thanks for the quick fix and an awesome project <3