# Unable to extract Julia on WSL2

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/unable-to-extract-julia-on-wsl2/82153>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Created:** [June 2, 2022, 8:55pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/unable-to-extract-julia-on-wsl2/82153 "2022-06-02T20:55:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![PetrKryslUCSD](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/petrkryslucsd/32/215825_2.png) [@PetrKryslUCSD](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/PetrKryslUCSD)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2022, 8:55pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/unable-to-extract-julia-on-wsl2/82153/1 "2022-06-02T20:55:27Z")

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Latest Julia. I am unable to extract the archive on WSL. Has anyone seen this?  
 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/original/3X/b/4/b46e53184f0cf1c909af3149fc17f0ef8d9737a5.png)

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**Author:** ![StefanKarpinski](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/stefankarpinski/32/24_2.png) [@StefanKarpinski](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/StefanKarpinski)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2022, 8:57pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/unable-to-extract-julia-on-wsl2/82153/2 "2022-06-02T20:57:41Z")

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That kind of looks like your gzip binary may be messed up. Can you compress and decompress stuff with it?

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**Author:** ![PetrKryslUCSD](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/petrkryslucsd/32/215825_2.png) [@PetrKryslUCSD](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/PetrKryslUCSD)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2022, 9:04pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/unable-to-extract-julia-on-wsl2/82153/3 "2022-06-02T21:04:23Z")

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Good point, it does seem that the gzip is seriously bad. 🙄

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**Author:** ![PetrKryslUCSD](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/petrkryslucsd/32/215825_2.png) [@PetrKryslUCSD](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/PetrKryslUCSD)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2022, 9:14pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/unable-to-extract-julia-on-wsl2/82153/4 "2022-06-02T21:14:30Z")

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The fix is

```julia
echo -en '\x10' | sudo dd of=/usr/bin/gzip count=1 bs=1 conv=notrunc seek=$((0x189)) 

```

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**Author:** ![oheil](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/oheil/32/220745_2.png) [@oheil](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/oheil)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2022, 7:31am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/unable-to-extract-julia-on-wsl2/82153/5 "2022-06-03T07:31:06Z")

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What Linux is this?  
On my WSL2 Debian I can’t reproduce.

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**Author:** ![StefanKarpinski](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/stefankarpinski/32/24_2.png) [@StefanKarpinski](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/StefanKarpinski)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2022, 12:49pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/unable-to-extract-julia-on-wsl2/82153/6 "2022-06-03T12:49:32Z")

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How did you arrive at this fix? Is this patching a specific byte of the binary?

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**Author:** ![PetrKryslUCSD](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/petrkryslucsd/32/215825_2.png) [@PetrKryslUCSD](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/PetrKryslUCSD)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2022, 12:54pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/unable-to-extract-julia-on-wsl2/82153/7 "2022-06-03T12:54:43Z")

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[https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/8219#issuecomment-1110508016](https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/8219#issuecomment-1110508016)

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**Author:** ![PetrKryslUCSD](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/petrkryslucsd/32/215825_2.png) [@PetrKryslUCSD](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/PetrKryslUCSD)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2022, 12:54pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/unable-to-extract-julia-on-wsl2/82153/8 "2022-06-03T12:54:54Z")

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Ubuntu Jammy

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**Author:** ![StefanKarpinski](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/stefankarpinski/32/24_2.png) [@StefanKarpinski](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/StefanKarpinski)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2022, 12:56pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/unable-to-extract-julia-on-wsl2/82153/9 "2022-06-03T12:56:57Z")

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Well, that is extremely obscure. Glad you were able to sort it out.

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**Author:** ![oheil](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/oheil/32/220745_2.png) [@oheil](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/oheil)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2022, 2:03pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/unable-to-extract-julia-on-wsl2/82153/10 "2022-06-03T14:03:24Z")

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Thanks for the issue link, good to know.