How to untar a .tar.xz file
I tried to run:
tar -zxvf name.tar.xz
but all I got was:
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar
edited Dec 13 '15 at 16:32
kos
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asked Dec 13 '15 at 14:24
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I tried to run:
tar -zxvf name.tar.xz
but all I got was:
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar
edited Dec 13 '15 at 16:32
kos
25.2k869119
asked Dec 13 '15 at 14:24
IlikeBananas
26118
What do you call a normal install? A tar.xz is just a compressed archive of files.
– Majenko
Dec 13 '15 at 14:25
I tried tar -zxvf name.tar.xz
– IlikeBananas
Dec 13 '15 at 14:26
Try replacing the z with J
– Majenko
Dec 13 '15 at 14:27
2
What happens withtar --xz -xvf name.tar.xz?
– muru
Dec 13 '15 at 16:06
2
Possible duplicate of How do I uncompress a tarball that uses .xz?
– zenith
May 27 '17 at 9:18
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I tried to run:
tar -zxvf name.tar.xz
but all I got was:
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar
edited Dec 13 '15 at 16:32
kos
25.2k869119
asked Dec 13 '15 at 14:24
IlikeBananas
26118
I tried to run:
tar -zxvf name.tar.xz
but all I got was:
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar
tar
edited Dec 13 '15 at 16:32
kos
25.2k869119
asked Dec 13 '15 at 14:24
IlikeBananas
26118
edited Dec 13 '15 at 16:32
kos
25.2k869119
asked Dec 13 '15 at 14:24
IlikeBananas
26118
edited Dec 13 '15 at 16:32
kos
25.2k869119
edited Dec 13 '15 at 16:32
kos
25.2k869119
edited Dec 13 '15 at 16:32
kos
25.2k869119
25.2k869119
asked Dec 13 '15 at 14:24
IlikeBananas
26118
asked Dec 13 '15 at 14:24
IlikeBananas
26118
asked Dec 13 '15 at 14:24
IlikeBananas
26118
26118
What do you call a normal install? A tar.xz is just a compressed archive of files.
– Majenko
Dec 13 '15 at 14:25
I tried tar -zxvf name.tar.xz
– IlikeBananas
Dec 13 '15 at 14:26
Try replacing the z with J
– Majenko
Dec 13 '15 at 14:27
2
What happens withtar --xz -xvf name.tar.xz?
– muru
Dec 13 '15 at 16:06
2
Possible duplicate of How do I uncompress a tarball that uses .xz?
– zenith
May 27 '17 at 9:18
|
show 4 more comments
What do you call a normal install? A tar.xz is just a compressed archive of files.
– Majenko
Dec 13 '15 at 14:25
I tried tar -zxvf name.tar.xz
– IlikeBananas
Dec 13 '15 at 14:26
Try replacing the z with J
– Majenko
Dec 13 '15 at 14:27
2
What happens withtar --xz -xvf name.tar.xz?
– muru
Dec 13 '15 at 16:06
2
Possible duplicate of How do I uncompress a tarball that uses .xz?
– zenith
May 27 '17 at 9:18
What do you call a normal install? A tar.xz is just a compressed archive of files.
– Majenko
Dec 13 '15 at 14:25
What do you call a normal install? A tar.xz is just a compressed archive of files.
– Majenko
Dec 13 '15 at 14:25
I tried tar -zxvf name.tar.xz
– IlikeBananas
Dec 13 '15 at 14:26
I tried tar -zxvf name.tar.xz
– IlikeBananas
Dec 13 '15 at 14:26
Try replacing the z with J
– Majenko
Dec 13 '15 at 14:27
Try replacing the z with J
– Majenko
Dec 13 '15 at 14:27
2
2
What happens with
tar --xz -xvf name.tar.xz?– muru
Dec 13 '15 at 16:06
What happens with
tar --xz -xvf name.tar.xz?– muru
Dec 13 '15 at 16:06
2
2
Possible duplicate of How do I uncompress a tarball that uses .xz?
– zenith
May 27 '17 at 9:18
Possible duplicate of How do I uncompress a tarball that uses .xz?
– zenith
May 27 '17 at 9:18
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The z flag of GNU tar (which is the version of tar shipped with Ubuntu) is used to speciy that the archive being processed is compressed using gzip, which is usually indicated by the .tar.gz (or, more rarely, .tgz) extension. In GNU tar, it is an error to use the z flag if the archive is not compressed with gzip, as you experience now.
Archives using the .tar.xz extension are compressed with xz, and the corresponding flag in GNU tar is J. Hence, replacing z with J in your command should solve your problem. In addition, you may get a "command not found" error if the xz tools are not installed on your system, which can be remedied by installing the xz-utils package.
answered Dec 13 '15 at 16:31
fkraiem
8,69331728
Alternatively, use theaflag to automatically determine the appropriate (de-)compressor from the archive file name.
– David Foerster
Dec 13 '15 at 23:38
@DavidFoerster No, theaflag is only used when creating archives. When extracting, it is sufficient to just not use any filetype-related flag at all.
– fkraiem
Dec 13 '15 at 23:58
Cool! I didn't know that, but I just tried it.
– David Foerster
Dec 14 '15 at 10:58
add a comment |
.xz is "A compression format using LZMA2 to yield very high compression ratios" and should be extracted with ar (ar is installed by default as part of GNU utils).
The GNU
arprogram creates, modifies, and extracts from archives. An archive is a single file holding a collection of other files in a structure that makes it possible to retrieve the original individual files (called members of the archive).
There are more tools (like tar) but whatever other tool you use: make sure that that tool supports this ->
The original files' contents, mode (permissions), timestamp, owner, and group are preserved in the archive, and can be restored on extraction.
answered Oct 31 '16 at 11:12
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I had a 'tar.xz', so I used unxz myfile.tar.xz to uncompress the file, so I got the archive file myfile.tar. Then using the regular tar command on an archive file, I could extract the contents tar xvf myfile.tar.
answered Dec 5 at 23:25
Vahid Mir
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The z flag of GNU tar (which is the version of tar shipped with Ubuntu) is used to speciy that the archive being processed is compressed using gzip, which is usually indicated by the .tar.gz (or, more rarely, .tgz) extension. In GNU tar, it is an error to use the z flag if the archive is not compressed with gzip, as you experience now.
Archives using the .tar.xz extension are compressed with xz, and the corresponding flag in GNU tar is J. Hence, replacing z with J in your command should solve your problem. In addition, you may get a "command not found" error if the xz tools are not installed on your system, which can be remedied by installing the xz-utils package.
answered Dec 13 '15 at 16:31
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Alternatively, use theaflag to automatically determine the appropriate (de-)compressor from the archive file name.
– David Foerster
Dec 13 '15 at 23:38
@DavidFoerster No, theaflag is only used when creating archives. When extracting, it is sufficient to just not use any filetype-related flag at all.
– fkraiem
Dec 13 '15 at 23:58
Cool! I didn't know that, but I just tried it.
– David Foerster
Dec 14 '15 at 10:58
add a comment |
The z flag of GNU tar (which is the version of tar shipped with Ubuntu) is used to speciy that the archive being processed is compressed using gzip, which is usually indicated by the .tar.gz (or, more rarely, .tgz) extension. In GNU tar, it is an error to use the z flag if the archive is not compressed with gzip, as you experience now.
Archives using the .tar.xz extension are compressed with xz, and the corresponding flag in GNU tar is J. Hence, replacing z with J in your command should solve your problem. In addition, you may get a "command not found" error if the xz tools are not installed on your system, which can be remedied by installing the xz-utils package.
answered Dec 13 '15 at 16:31
fkraiem
8,69331728
Alternatively, use theaflag to automatically determine the appropriate (de-)compressor from the archive file name.
– David Foerster
Dec 13 '15 at 23:38
@DavidFoerster No, theaflag is only used when creating archives. When extracting, it is sufficient to just not use any filetype-related flag at all.
– fkraiem
Dec 13 '15 at 23:58
Cool! I didn't know that, but I just tried it.
– David Foerster
Dec 14 '15 at 10:58
add a comment |
The z flag of GNU tar (which is the version of tar shipped with Ubuntu) is used to speciy that the archive being processed is compressed using gzip, which is usually indicated by the .tar.gz (or, more rarely, .tgz) extension. In GNU tar, it is an error to use the z flag if the archive is not compressed with gzip, as you experience now.
Archives using the .tar.xz extension are compressed with xz, and the corresponding flag in GNU tar is J. Hence, replacing z with J in your command should solve your problem. In addition, you may get a "command not found" error if the xz tools are not installed on your system, which can be remedied by installing the xz-utils package.
answered Dec 13 '15 at 16:31
fkraiem
8,69331728
The z flag of GNU tar (which is the version of tar shipped with Ubuntu) is used to speciy that the archive being processed is compressed using gzip, which is usually indicated by the .tar.gz (or, more rarely, .tgz) extension. In GNU tar, it is an error to use the z flag if the archive is not compressed with gzip, as you experience now.
Archives using the .tar.xz extension are compressed with xz, and the corresponding flag in GNU tar is J. Hence, replacing z with J in your command should solve your problem. In addition, you may get a "command not found" error if the xz tools are not installed on your system, which can be remedied by installing the xz-utils package.
answered Dec 13 '15 at 16:31
fkraiem
8,69331728
answered Dec 13 '15 at 16:31
fkraiem
8,69331728
answered Dec 13 '15 at 16:31
fkraiem
8,69331728
answered Dec 13 '15 at 16:31
fkraiem
8,69331728
8,69331728
Alternatively, use theaflag to automatically determine the appropriate (de-)compressor from the archive file name.
– David Foerster
Dec 13 '15 at 23:38
@DavidFoerster No, theaflag is only used when creating archives. When extracting, it is sufficient to just not use any filetype-related flag at all.
– fkraiem
Dec 13 '15 at 23:58
Cool! I didn't know that, but I just tried it.
– David Foerster
Dec 14 '15 at 10:58
add a comment |
Alternatively, use theaflag to automatically determine the appropriate (de-)compressor from the archive file name.
– David Foerster
Dec 13 '15 at 23:38
@DavidFoerster No, theaflag is only used when creating archives. When extracting, it is sufficient to just not use any filetype-related flag at all.
– fkraiem
Dec 13 '15 at 23:58
Cool! I didn't know that, but I just tried it.
– David Foerster
Dec 14 '15 at 10:58
Alternatively, use the
a flag to automatically determine the appropriate (de-)compressor from the archive file name.– David Foerster
Dec 13 '15 at 23:38
Alternatively, use the
a flag to automatically determine the appropriate (de-)compressor from the archive file name.– David Foerster
Dec 13 '15 at 23:38
@DavidFoerster No, the
a flag is only used when creating archives. When extracting, it is sufficient to just not use any filetype-related flag at all.– fkraiem
Dec 13 '15 at 23:58
@DavidFoerster No, the
a flag is only used when creating archives. When extracting, it is sufficient to just not use any filetype-related flag at all.– fkraiem
Dec 13 '15 at 23:58
Cool! I didn't know that, but I just tried it.
– David Foerster
Dec 14 '15 at 10:58
Cool! I didn't know that, but I just tried it.
– David Foerster
Dec 14 '15 at 10:58
add a comment |
.xz is "A compression format using LZMA2 to yield very high compression ratios" and should be extracted with ar (ar is installed by default as part of GNU utils).
The GNU
arprogram creates, modifies, and extracts from archives. An archive is a single file holding a collection of other files in a structure that makes it possible to retrieve the original individual files (called members of the archive).
There are more tools (like tar) but whatever other tool you use: make sure that that tool supports this ->
The original files' contents, mode (permissions), timestamp, owner, and group are preserved in the archive, and can be restored on extraction.
answered Oct 31 '16 at 11:12
Rinzwind
203k27388522
add a comment |
.xz is "A compression format using LZMA2 to yield very high compression ratios" and should be extracted with ar (ar is installed by default as part of GNU utils).
The GNU
arprogram creates, modifies, and extracts from archives. An archive is a single file holding a collection of other files in a structure that makes it possible to retrieve the original individual files (called members of the archive).
There are more tools (like tar) but whatever other tool you use: make sure that that tool supports this ->
The original files' contents, mode (permissions), timestamp, owner, and group are preserved in the archive, and can be restored on extraction.
answered Oct 31 '16 at 11:12
Rinzwind
203k27388522
add a comment |
.xz is "A compression format using LZMA2 to yield very high compression ratios" and should be extracted with ar (ar is installed by default as part of GNU utils).
The GNU
arprogram creates, modifies, and extracts from archives. An archive is a single file holding a collection of other files in a structure that makes it possible to retrieve the original individual files (called members of the archive).
There are more tools (like tar) but whatever other tool you use: make sure that that tool supports this ->
The original files' contents, mode (permissions), timestamp, owner, and group are preserved in the archive, and can be restored on extraction.
answered Oct 31 '16 at 11:12
Rinzwind
203k27388522
.xz is "A compression format using LZMA2 to yield very high compression ratios" and should be extracted with ar (ar is installed by default as part of GNU utils).
The GNU
arprogram creates, modifies, and extracts from archives. An archive is a single file holding a collection of other files in a structure that makes it possible to retrieve the original individual files (called members of the archive).
There are more tools (like tar) but whatever other tool you use: make sure that that tool supports this ->
The original files' contents, mode (permissions), timestamp, owner, and group are preserved in the archive, and can be restored on extraction.
answered Oct 31 '16 at 11:12
Rinzwind
203k27388522
edited Oct 31 '16 at 11:18
answered Oct 31 '16 at 11:12
Rinzwind
203k27388522
answered Oct 31 '16 at 11:12
Rinzwind
203k27388522
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I had a 'tar.xz', so I used unxz myfile.tar.xz to uncompress the file, so I got the archive file myfile.tar. Then using the regular tar command on an archive file, I could extract the contents tar xvf myfile.tar.
answered Dec 5 at 23:25
Vahid Mir
1216
add a comment |
I had a 'tar.xz', so I used unxz myfile.tar.xz to uncompress the file, so I got the archive file myfile.tar. Then using the regular tar command on an archive file, I could extract the contents tar xvf myfile.tar.
answered Dec 5 at 23:25
Vahid Mir
1216
add a comment |
I had a 'tar.xz', so I used unxz myfile.tar.xz to uncompress the file, so I got the archive file myfile.tar. Then using the regular tar command on an archive file, I could extract the contents tar xvf myfile.tar.
answered Dec 5 at 23:25
Vahid Mir
1216
I had a 'tar.xz', so I used unxz myfile.tar.xz to uncompress the file, so I got the archive file myfile.tar. Then using the regular tar command on an archive file, I could extract the contents tar xvf myfile.tar.
answered Dec 5 at 23:25
Vahid Mir
1216
answered Dec 5 at 23:25
Vahid Mir
1216
answered Dec 5 at 23:25
Vahid Mir
1216
answered Dec 5 at 23:25
Vahid Mir
1216
1216
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What do you call a normal install? A tar.xz is just a compressed archive of files.
– Majenko
Dec 13 '15 at 14:25
I tried tar -zxvf name.tar.xz
– IlikeBananas
Dec 13 '15 at 14:26
Try replacing the z with J
– Majenko
Dec 13 '15 at 14:27
2
What happens with
tar --xz -xvf name.tar.xz?– muru
Dec 13 '15 at 16:06
2
Possible duplicate of How do I uncompress a tarball that uses .xz?
– zenith
May 27 '17 at 9:18