AMD Drivers for Linux - tar.xz failing

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Patrick

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A bit tired tonight.

Code:
$wget https://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/ubuntu/amdgpu-pro-16.50-362463.tar.xz
$ tar Jxf amdgpu-pro-16.50-362463.tar.xz.
And I got

Code:
xz: (stdin): File format not recognized
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
I thought I was doing something very wrong.

It turns out:
Code:
$ wget https://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/ubuntu/amdgpu-pro-16.50-362463.tar.xz
--2017-01-24 21:51:35--  https://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/ubuntu/amdgpu-pro-16.50-362463.tar.xz
Resolving www2.ati.com (www2.ati.com)... 23.48.158.17
Connecting to www2.ati.com (www2.ati.com)|23.48.158.17|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Moved Temporarily
Location: http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/incomplete [following]
--2017-01-24 21:51:37--  http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/incomplete
Resolving support.amd.com (support.amd.com)... 184.87.144.55
Connecting to support.amd.com (support.amd.com)|184.87.144.55|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 52664 (51K) [text/html]
Saving to: ‘amdgpu-pro-16.50-362463.tar.xz.1’

amdgpu-pro-16.50-362463.tar.xz. 100%[======================================================>]  51.43K  --.-KB/s    in 0.1s

2017-01-24 21:51:37 (436 KB/s) - ‘amdgpu-pro-16.50-362463.tar.xz.1’ saved [52664/52664]
AMD's download site did not like a simple wget request and apparently I am too tired to notice.