Solution for Unrecognized archive format in asdf

solution-asdf-unrecognized-format.md

Are you getting the error "Unrecognized archive format" while trying to install php on asdf?

asdf install php 7.4                                                                                                                      develop ⬆ ✖ ✱ ◼
Determining configuration options...
Downloading source code...
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100   120  100   120    0     0    272      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--   272
100    14  100    14    0     0     18      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--    18
Extracting source code...
tar: Error opening archive: Unrecognized archive format

It's because asdf can't find the proper php version, include the minor version as well, like this:

asdf install php 7.4.18                                                                                                                  ✘ 1 develop ⬆ ✖ ✱ ◼
Determining configuration options...
Downloading source code...
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100   123  100   123    0     0    422      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--   421
100 13.9M    0 13.9M    0     0  4769k      0 --:--:--  0:00:02 --:--:-- 6495k
Extracting source code...
Running buildconfig...
buildconf: Checking installation
buildconf: autoconf version 2.71 (ok)
buildconf: Forcing buildconf. The configure files will be regenerated.
buildconf: Cleaning cache and configure files
buildconf: Rebuilding configure
...

Done!

Oh thank you man, was struggling on this !

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