install_micro.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash
set -e

OS=$1
INSTALLDIR=${2:-"."}

function githubLatestTag {
    finalUrl=`curl https://github.com/$1/releases/latest -s -L -I -o /dev/null -w '%{url_effective}'`
    echo "${finalUrl##*v}"
}

TAG=`githubLatestTag zyedidia/micro`

echo "Downloading https://github.com/zyedidia/micro/releases/download/v$TAG/micro-$TAG-"$OS".tar.gz"
curl -L "https://github.com/zyedidia/micro/releases/download/v$TAG/micro-$TAG-"$OS".tar.gz" > micro.tar.gz

tar -xvf micro.tar.gz "micro-$TAG/micro"

rm micro.tar.gz
echo "mv micro-$TAG/micro $INSTALLDIR/micro"
mv micro-$TAG/micro $INSTALLDIR/micro
rm -rf micro-$TAG

Hello. I also got an error message on Lubuntu 17.04:
./install_micro.sh
Downloading https://github.com/zyedidia/micro/releases/download/v1.3.3/micro-1.3.3-.tar.gz
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 9 0 9 0 0 15 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 15
tar: This does not look like a tar archive

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

Thanks.

Repeating what the last two said, I get the same error.

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package gzip2