Uncompress a .xz file
 

I intend on installing a version of Freebsd 8.2 under a virtual machine running on centos 5.6.The dvd image image is FREEBSD-8.2....xz. I would like to uncompress it so that I can burn it to a DVD, but have never confronted such a format. Can someone suggest which utility under Linux would be used to uncompress it?

Thank you

http://tukaani.org/xz/ is what you want. I don't know whether CentOS has a package for this, though Slackware certainly does.

Hi,

Try the xz package :)

I'm sure Debian includes it in its sources.

Hope this helps.

Since version 9.04 the package p7zip manages XZ files. The version currently installed by CentOS 5.6 is 9.20. The command to extract is:
CentOS provides the xz package suggested by druuna, as well.