decompressing and installing bz2 files

[todsky2012]

I have installed red hat ver. 9, and updated it. now I am trying to install quicktime4linux with no luck. I downloaded two files, 1)quicktime4linux-2.0.0-src.tar.tar, and 2)quicktime4linux-2.0.4-src.tar.bz2.

the quicktime website said to use this command: rpm -i -force -nodeps <package name>
this did not work

next, a friend suggested I try this: tar -xvf filename.tar
this did not work either. I tried these commands using both file names. the files are located in the root, and a directory I created in the root named download.

S.O.S-S.O.S-S.O.S
thank you for any suggestions anyone may have. :confused:

[psych-major]

Originally posted by todsky2012
next, a friend suggested I try this: tar -xvf filename.tar

You were almost there.
Try this
tar -xjvf quicktime4linux-2.0.4-src.tar.bz2

OR

You can perform the operations separately:
bzip2 -d quicktime4linux-2.0.4-src.tar.bz2
tar -xvf quicktime4linux-2.0.4-src.tar

Good Luck!