"file Too Short" With Tableau Data Extract Api (python And Linux)

Tableau recently expanded some tools for developers to Linux, from Windows-only. After downloading the Tableau Data Extract API libraries for Python (2.7) on Linux (64Bit, version

Solution 1:

There is an error when copying or extracting the libraries, where the links are actually files. A similar example is here.

You need to remove the files that are supposed to be links, and then re-link them.

cd /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/dataextract/lib/../lib/

rm libicudata.so.50 && ln -s libicudata.so.50.1.2 libicudata.so.50
rm libicui18n.so.50 && ln -s libicui18n.so.50.1.2 libicui18n.so.50
rm libicuio.so.50 && ln -s libicuio.so.50.1.2 libicuio.so.50
rm libicule.so.50 && ln -s libicule.so.50.1.2 libicule.so.50
rm libiculx.so.50 && ln -s libiculx.so.50.1.2 libiculx.so.50
rm libicutu.so.50 && ln -s libicutu.so.50.1.2 libicutu.so.50
rm libicuuc.so.50 && ln -s libicuuc.so.50.1.2 libicuuc.so.50