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04-18-2004, 12:58 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: May 2003
Location: Utah, USA
Distribution: Slackware 9.0
Posts: 7
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extracting tar.bz2.gz files
How do i extract tar.bz2.gz files?
Thanks in advance.
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04-18-2004, 01:08 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Feb 2004
Location: Somerset, England
Distribution: Slackware 10.2, Slackware 10.0, Ubuntu 9.10
Posts: 1,938
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tar.bz2.gz? All on the same file? Or separate files? Either way, search for it, this is asked all the time.
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04-18-2004, 01:33 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: May 2003
Location: Utah, USA
Distribution: Slackware 9.0
Posts: 7
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Yea, it's on one file. I have searched and havn't been able to find anything. When I use gunzip to decompress the .gz extension it gives me an error:
"gunzip: file1.tar.bz2.gz not in gzip format". Also, Bzip2 gives the same sorda error.
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04-18-2004, 01:41 PM
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Moderator
Registered: Mar 2003
Location: Scotland
Distribution: Slackware, RedHat, Debian
Posts: 12,047
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Where did you download it from? It seems really odd to double compress a file like that.
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04-18-2004, 02:36 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Apr 2004
Location: Potchefstroom, South Africa
Distribution: Fedora 17 - 3.3.4-5.fc17.x86_64
Posts: 1,552
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Hi
Go
bunzip2 filename
tar zxvf filename
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04-18-2004, 11:33 PM
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Member
Registered: Dec 2002
Location: New Westminster, B.C.,CANADA
Distribution: Slax. Tinycore. Puppy.
Posts: 109
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Did you download this file with ms windows?
When I download a .tar.bz2 with w98 I get
a .tar.tar file!
Go to the web site and get the correct file name
or rename your file .tar.bz2 or .tar.gz.
Need Help? Try tar --help. Same with bz2 and gz.
You have to rename the file before you can
unzip it.
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