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i got a driver for my video card because some guy told me where to get it. it's a tar.bz but what the heck opens .bz? Linux without any extra downloaded stuff doesn't know what it is so what do i need to download to make this thing extract?
You'll need to use bunzip2 or bzip2 -d to extract a .bz file. You can find all the information on this utility by running man bzip2.
j.
[edit]: Actually, those commands will just uncompress the file. You may need to use tar to do any "extracting" or "opening". If that's the case, the file will most likely have a .tar extension.
if you want to unzip a tar.bz file use tar xjfv and for a tar.gz file use tar.xzfv
the j option tells tar to use bzip program to unzip while z option tell to use gzip
I tried using the "j" option and got the following results:
Code:
jpweston@xxx:~/download$ tar -xjfv bluefish-0.7.tar.bz2
tar: invalid option -- j
Try `tar --help' for more information.
I checked the man pages for tar as you suggested and saw no mention of the -j flag. Is there a different version of the tar utility that uses this option?
I just checked the man page for tar on my Red Hat 7.3 box and there is a listing for the "j" flag. So, it looks like Slackware 8.0 has an older(?) version of tar?
So, either "j" or "y" seems to do the trick depending on your version/distro.
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