Tar: Option --overwrite is not supported; what's wrong?

Install, Configure and Update
1

Hello,

I am trying to install cryoSPARC on my Mac. As soon as I enter “Yes” to download, I get:

Installing at
/Users/HansenLab/cryosparc

Downloading latest cryoSPARC distribution…
Done.

Extracting…
tar: Option --overwrite is not supported
Usage:
List: tar -tf
Extract: tar -xf
Create: tar -cf [filenames…]
Help: tar --help
sh18051:~ HansenLab$

And that’s it. I used HomeBrew to make sure I have a GCC equivalent of 4.9.

Commands:
which nvcc
echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH

do not report anything. I tried installing the CUDA setup script for Ubuntu but perhaps that didn’t work since I’m not actually using Ubuntu? I am very naive with this sort of thing so I am having trouble figuring this out. My brother (PhD in computer science) helped me get the GCC stuff together, but I don’t know what to do from here as that may not have been an issue?

Thanks
Ben

2

Install GNU version of tar using homebrew and put it first in your PATH. You will probably want all the other GNU utilities as well. Just copied pasted from a standard Mac setup script I have for student laptops, so remove the packages you don’t want.

# Install basic packages and UNIX utilities with standard names.
brew install bash-completion imagemagick ntfs-3g p7zip python python3 r readline screen ssh-copy-id unrar wget git vim
brew install coreutils
brew install findutils --with-default-names
brew install gnu-indent --with-default-names
brew install gnu-sed --with-default-names
brew install gnutls
brew install grep --with-default-names
brew install gnu-tar --with-default-names
brew install gawk
brew install gcc

# Add to .bashrc
PATH="$(brew --prefix)/opt/coreutils/libexec/gnubin:$PATH"
MANPATH="$(brew --prefix)/opt/coreutils/libexec/gnuman:$MANPATH"
3