[Techtalk] decompressing tar.bz2 files

Noir acknak_halflife at yahoo.co.uk
Sun Sep 26 03:19:40 EST 2004


 --- ed orphan <millward at Ms.UManitoba.CA> 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.

Try and see if the file is actually a tar.bz2 file.
"file filename.tar.bz2".

In Linux I usually do "tar -xvjf file.tar.bz2". It's
different in OpenBSD as they don't have the -j switch.

Also, try and tar+bz2 some file and then try to untar
it. It will help you realize where the actual problem is.


	
	
		
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