[SOLVED] how to extract tar.xz file?

kiranonlinuxque · 08-10-2012, 02:01 AM

Hi,
My distro is RHEL 5?
How do I extract tar.xz file?

Thanks
Kiran

EricTRA · 08-10-2012, 02:04 AM

Hello and welcome to LinuxQuestions,

According to the man page for tar the following option(s) extract tar.xz files:

Code:

-J, --xz       filter the archive through xz

Looking forward to your participation in the forums. Have fun with Linux.

Kind regards,

Eric

slack32 · 08-10-2012, 02:13 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kiranonlinuxque

Hi,
My distro is RHEL 5?
How do I extract tar.xz file?

Thanks
Kiran

You can use xz too. http://tukaani.org/xz/

knudfl · 08-10-2012, 02:35 AM

Redhat EL5 is old and uses an old version of tar ( version 1.15 ).

A contemporary OS has e.g. tar-1.26, which automatically recognizes xz,
and you can do : tar xvf archive.tar.xz

RHEL 5 : 1) xz -d archive.tar.xz
2) tar xvf archive.tar

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kiranonlinuxque · 08-10-2012, 02:42 AM

I installed xz and tried with xz -d <archive.tar.xz>
Thank you all.
Solved.