I'm with Zoran; see if you can decompress manually. It looks like he suggested a different option style, too.
Exactly what I did. Decompressed it manually with tar -xf, to see what will happen (works seamlessly). Could be done with -xvf (v in the middle: verbose, for debug traces).
I would warmly suggest to everyone to use the latest distros, with most recent upgrades. Since these are tested, mostly, and they have latest and greatest features enhanced, and added.
Here is what I have after last upgrade of my Fedora 24 VM on my HP UltraBook WIN10 laptop half an hour ago (following Martin's Roth advice):
[zoran@localhost libelf]$ uname -r 4.6.6-300.fc24.x86_64 [zoran@localhost libelf]$ tar --version tar (GNU tar) 1.28 Copyright (C) 2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html. This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
Written by John Gilmore and Jay Fenlason. [zoran@localhost libelf]$ /bin/sh --version GNU bash, version 4.3.42(1)-release (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html
This is free software; you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. [zoran@localhost libelf]$
Regards, Zoran