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heres why I needed to extract txz files
thats pmagic-4.5 remaster with gkrellm and flash 10 and lm_sensors
all txz pkg I hard-installed into the pmagic-4.5.sqfs http://multidistro.com/pmagic/45.png
txz is just a tar.xz file. GNU tar has built in ability to figure out most compression methods and will use the appropriate programs simply by just typing
Code:
tar xf your_file.txz
that's 'tar' 'decompress' 'file' 'your file name'
This only works with GNU tar which should be on all GNU/Linux distros. Additionally, you need to have to have the xz package. On slackware 13.0 this is xz-4.999.8beta
if tar doesn't recognize the compression format AND you have an appropriate program to decompress the file, you can even do
Code:
tar xf your_file.txz --use-compress-program xz
that is assuming again GNU tar and the compression program accepts a '-d' argument to decompress files.
Sorry to resurrect an old thread. I've just done the upgrade from 12.2.
I want to list the files in a txz archive. I try `tar Jtf etc.txz`, tar replies that J is an unknown option. I'm using tar 1.22, which slackpkg tells me is the correct version for 13.0.
I could use -use-compress-program, but that's an awful lot of typing for such a simple thing.
Any ideas? Especially on why my 13.0 tar doesn't recognise option 'J'.
Aaaargh. Tar's option J does work, but I didn't read the error msg fully. It was actually xz complaining about the file format, it wasn't tar complaining about "J".
I've given myself a good kicking for wasting your time.
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