# unarchive fails?! **URL:** \ **Category:** Ansible Project\ **Created:** [December 3, 2015, 11:28am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/unarchive-fails/19928 "2015-12-03T11:28:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Christian\_Schmitt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7cd45c/32.png) [@Christian\_Schmitt](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Christian_Schmitt)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2015, 11:28am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/unarchive-fails/19928/1 "2015-12-03T11:28:14Z")
Hello, currently I try to unarchive a file via ansible however I always get the following: msg: Failed to find handler to unarchive. Make sure the required command to extract the file is installed. Currently my Machine is a OS X 10.11 and my Target machine a CentOS 7. However I have another set of machines on CentOS 7 where I use tar.gz archives and unarchive which succeeds. Currently tar and gunzip is installed on both machines. ---
**Author:** ![Toshio\_Kuratomi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/41988e/32.png) [@Toshio\_Kuratomi](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Toshio_Kuratomi)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2015, 4:32pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/unarchive-fails/19928/2 "2015-12-03T16:32:24Z")
Bit more information like what ansible version you're using and information about the archive you're operating on would be helpful. Here's some troubleshooting that might be helpful: \* Ansible first looks for a gtar program and then a tar program in the user's path. On centos7, I imagine htose would both be present so that shouldn't be the issue. \* Ansible runs the following command to test if tar can handle the file:        tar -tzf "FILENAME"   Does that command work on the archive you are operating on on the target machine? \* Is the archive the same on the centos7 machine which succeeds and the centos7 machine that fails? -Toshio