[Techtalk] decompressing tar.bz2 files

[Hugo Chasqueira]

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On Sunday 26 September 2004 03:11, ed orphan wrote:
> After downloading a file like
> rp9codecs-20040626.tar.bz2 from the MPlayer
> site I can't get it to decompress into something useful.
> bzip2 -d rp9codecs-20040626.tar.bz2 results
> in a tar file that never untars.
> tar -vxj rp9codecs-20040626.tar.bz2  does
> nothing at all.
> tar -x rp9codecs-20040626.tar  does nothing.
> It just hangs.  Same with a tar -t command.
>   I've tried several codec files from the MPlayer
> site that are  tar.bz2 files and they all behave
> the same.
>   Can anyone tell me how to decompress these
>    tar.bz2 files?


I think what you want is:

tar xvjf rp9codecs-20040626.tar.bz2

x to extract archive
v to verbose output
j to unzip bzip2
f to do it to the file mentioned next

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Hugo Chasqueira

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