tar.gz vs tar.bz2

scottoaks · 01-24-2006, 11:21 PM

My Slackware KPackage installer wont recognize files with the .bz2 extension......only recognizes the tar.gz

any way to convert these files?

amosf · 01-24-2006, 11:51 PM

you just need to install the bzip utilities to handle bz2...

BinJajer · 01-25-2006, 02:35 AM

Wrong. I guess there is no way...

amosf · 01-25-2006, 03:02 AM

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Originally Posted by BinJajer

Wrong. I guess there is no way...

Huh? No way for what? You just need bzip to unzip bz2 archives... Of course they might not be actual slack installation packages...

sohny · 01-25-2006, 03:22 AM

I think this a round about way but it works i think

bzip2 -d <filenam>.bz2
you will get a folder with name <filename>

do the following on that directory
tar -cvf <filname>

may be this will work

amosf · 01-25-2006, 03:28 AM

Yes, but once you have bzip installed you can do tar xfvj anyway... Or you can do a bzip -d and then gzip it back to a tar.gz file... depends what the OP wants to do...

BinJajer · 01-25-2006, 04:30 AM

Damn, you can't install tar.bz2's as packages!! Only tgz is supported! I must be misunderstanding smoething here!

amosf · 01-25-2006, 04:36 AM

I don't know whether the OP want to open them as packages. That will be up to the OP to tell us. They may just want to open them... Need more info.

scottoaks · 01-25-2006, 08:07 AM

Yes these are packages that i want to install...they all seem to come with the .bz2 extension and KPackage only accepts tar.gz