Cellranger untar error

Question

[mskr_]

[SOLVED] Hello I am trying to install Cellranger. I downloaded the tar file from 10X genomics website and wanted to untar that. However I am getting bunch of these errors. It fails to untar. Below is the line I use for unpacking. I am on windows machine with xUbuntu installed via VM virtualbox.

I searched on the web that FAT32 systems might cause that issue. I use NFST on my local computer. Does it mean that allocated storage space for VM is also NFST ?

Any idea is appreciated! Thanks!

tar -zxvf cellranger-6.1.1.tar.gz

tar: cellranger-6.1.1/external/anaconda/share/terminfo/a/ansi80x50: Cannot create symlink to ‘../c/cons50’: Operation not permitted
tar: cellranger-6.1.1/external/anaconda/share/terminfo/a/ansi80x43-mono: Cannot create symlink to ‘../c/cons43-m’: Operation not permitted
tar: cellranger-6.1.1/external/anaconda/share/terminfo/2/2621: Cannot create symlink to ‘../h/hp2621’: Operation not permitted
tar: cellranger-6.1.1/external/anaconda/share/terminfo/1/1730-lm: Cannot create symlink to ‘../d/diablo1740-lm’: Operation not permitted
tar: cellranger-6.1.1/external/anaconda/share/terminfo/1/1178: Cannot create symlink to ‘../a/adm1178’: Operation not permitted
tar: cellranger-6.1.1/external/anaconda/etc/fonts/conf.d: Directory renamed before its status could be extracted
tar: cellranger-6.1.1/external/anaconda/etc/fonts: Directory renamed before its status could be extracted
tar: cellranger-6.1.1/external/anaconda/etc: Directory renamed before its status could be extracted
tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors

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Answer 1

[mskr_]

OK so I ran WinRAR on my host machine as an administrator to unpack. It worked.