tar.bz2

hextex · 06-14-2001, 10:18 AM

Hello, I seem to be having some trouble extracting files from a .tar.bz2 file. I am running Red Hat 7.1 under GNOME, if anyone can help me that would be great!

I am also looking for a good AVI player, the one i am trying to unpackage now, is MPlayer, but you can see i am having trouble with the tar.bz2
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unSpawn · 06-14-2001, 11:17 AM

bzip2 -d -k (archive.tar.bz2) then tar -xvf (archive.tar)

jharris · 06-14-2001, 12:34 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by unSpawn
bzip2 -d -k (archive.tar.bz2) then tar -xvf (archive.tar)

In the same way as you do with gzip files you can squash the two steps above into the same command if you don't want the intermidary file with

Code:

bzip2 -dc archive.tar.bz2 | tar xvf -

HTH

Jamie...

hextex · 06-14-2001, 12:46 PM

Ok, i tried th first thing, and it gave me a .tar That was empty. The second thing i tried, give me nothing, but it also gave no error message.

jharris · 06-14-2001, 12:50 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by hextex
Ok, i tried th first thing, and it gave me a .tar That was empty. The second thing i tried, give me nothing, but it also gave no error message.

If the first didn't work then the second won't either. Sounds like you file is corrupt or someone created an empty tar file then bzip2 compressed it, making it bigger!

Jamie

hextex · 06-14-2001, 12:57 PM

Ok, your right, I downloaded it again from another location, and it worked great!! Thanks guys!