What's a .bz2 file?

[Silent Bob]

And how do I deal with it?

As far as I can tell it's a compressed file, but how do I decompress it?

[CMonster]

bzip2 -d targetfile.whatever.bz2

man bzip2

If you do not have bzip2 installed you will need to install it.

[Silent Bob]

thanks

[Stween]

Also, if you have a .tar.bz2 rather than running

tar zxf file-name

as you would on a .tar.gz or .tgz try

tar yxf file-name.tar.bz2

its possible that tar has bz2 support compiled in and is very convenient if it is :)


Stween