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 The installation is easy. You can download the pre-built binaries for your platform from the [Releases](https://github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/releases/) page. Extract them using tar, move it to your `$PATH`and you're ready to go.
 
 ```bash
-> tar -xzvf nuclei-linux-amd64.tar
+> tar -xzvf nuclei-linux-amd64.tar.gz
 > mv nuclei-linux-amd64 /usr/bin/nuclei
 > nuclei -h
 ```