Change the default headless link to contain `.tar.gz`

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Dimava
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Change the default headless link to contain `.tar.gz`

Post by Dimava »

Downloads page says "If you are running a server, you can use this link to always download the latest stable version."
Currently the link is https://factorio.com/get-download/stabl ... ss/linux64
So if you just

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wget
it, it'll create

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linux64
file, which is not unzippable by

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tar -xz
Please change the recommended link to https;//factorio.com/get-download/stable/headless/linux64/factorio-stable.tar.gz so its use is more obvious

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Re: Change the default headless link to contain `.tar.gz`

Post by vinzenz »

it's using xz for compression so you need to unpack it with

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tar -xJf
and with -O

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wget -O "myfavouritefilename.tar.xz"
you can set the name of the downloaded file.
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