how do I uncompress a tar.bz2 file?

[thescribe7]

I downloaded a file and am having trouble figureing out how to do it.
any one know how?

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[Killio]

Get a copy of bzip2 (if you use debian, just 'apt-get install bzip2', otherwise I'm not sure)

then do this;

cd /home/tux
tar -Ixfv foo.tar.bz2


if you only want to extract the bz2 and leave the tar, use

bzip2 -d foo.tar.bz2

[Shad]

Most distros will already have bzip2 compression installed ( I think it is necessary to properly make a kernel now). Just try the commands and see if they work.

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[Ripley]

I thought tar required a patch to handle bzip2 files. ftp://sourceware.cygnus.com/pub/bzip2/contrib/gnutarpatch.txt from http://sources.redhat.com/bzip2/

If so then

bzcat filename.tar.bz2 | tar xv

would work without it.

[ToolPackinMama]

Originally posted by Ripley:
I thought tar required a patch to handle bzip2 files. ftp://sourceware.cygnus.com/pub/bzip2/contrib/gnutarpatch.txt from http://sources.redhat.com/bzip2/


I tried to DL it but it wants to be saved as and HTML file. What gives? http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/tongue.gif



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[Sensei]

What about bunzip? That is part of the bzip package.

This makes for a good FAQ question.

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[irlandes]

Doesn't midnight commander (accessed by the comman mc from the text prompt) have an easy bunzip function key?