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lzip compressed data

How the ****** do I unpack this?

Code:

mike@continuity:~$ file ddrescue-1.14.tar.lz 

ddrescue-1.14.tar.lz: lzip compressed data, version: 1

Nothing I've found via Google works. E.g.

Code:

mike@continuity:~$ tar Jxvf ddrescue-1.14.tar.lz 

xz: (stdin): File format not recognized

tar: Child returned status 1

tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

mike@continuity:~$ xzcat ddrescue-1.14.tar.lz 

xzcat: ddrescue-1.14.tar.lz: File format not recognized

mike@continuity:~$ tar --lzma -xvf ddrescue-1.14.tar.lz 

lzma: (stdin): File format not recognized

I even tried double clicking it in Nautilus but that just got me "There is no command installed for Lzip archive files.
Do you want to search for a command to open this file?" followed by an error when I responded in the affirmative.

You need lzip! Which OS are you running? For OpenSuSE I found it through the "package search" form on the official site, since it is not placed in the standard repositories. Once you have lzip installed you can simply do

Code:

tar xvf ddrescue-1.14.tar.lz

or more explicitly:

Code:

tar --lzip -xvf ddrescue-1.14.tar.lz

Hope this helps.

Quote:

Originally Posted by colucix (Post 4290772)

You need lzip!

I thought I had it, but apparently not. I'm using openSUSE 11.4. There isn't an lzip package for 11.4 available from software.opensuse.org but the 11.3 package works.

Thanks!