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I found some tool packages which are probably compressed by some archiver.
Their extension is *.tar.bz2

How do I decompress them ?
I tried it with gzip:

gzip -d -v myarv.tar.bz2

but got an error:

gzip: myarv.tar.bz2: unknown suffix -- ignored

Regards
Michael

Those are bzip2 files.  Unzip with bunzip2.

Or 'man tar'.  With GNU tar in Linux (assuming bzip2 installed):
tar -xjvf filename.tar.bz2

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Michael Svensson:

Quote:>I found some tool packages which are probably compressed by some archiver.
>Their extension is *.tar.bz2

>How do I decompress them ?

With bzip2 <http://sources.redhat.com/bzip2/> or some other archiver
supporting the bz2 file format (e.g. Winrar <http://www.rarlab.com/>).

[...]

Regards,
Marco

Use bzip2 rather.

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And if you have bzip2 but your tar wasn't compiled to use it:

bzcat filename.tar.bz2 | tar xv

(That's a pipe before the tar)
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Yeah, you need to use the command
  netscape www.google.com

And then use your wildest imagination to come up with a search string.
Maybe something with "bz2" in it, and perhaps either "compression" or
"decompression" too.

And who knows, perhaps the first hit will be something called "The bzip2 and libbzip2 home
page" which might even contain strings like "To decompress a .bz2 file, do
[SNIP]".

Or you could just post to comp.compression and wait for several hours for
someone to reply with a sensible answer.

Phil

Quote:> I found some tool packages which are probably compressed by some archiver.
> Their extension is *.tar.bz2
> How do I decompress them ?
> I tried it with gzip:
> gzip -d -v myarv.tar.bz2
> but got an error:
> gzip: myarv.tar.bz2: unknown suffix -- ignored

Did you try azip, czip, dzip, ezip, fzip, hzip, izip, jzip, kzip, lzip,
mzip, nzip, ozip, pzip, qzip, rzip, szip, tzip, uzip, vzip, wzip, xzip,
yzip, or zzip?

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This is the result of a well known filepacker and implementation of the
prediction algorithm Burrows and Wheeler Transform, Bzip2.
You can find both source code and executables here:
http://sources.redhat.com/bzip2/

Quote:> How do I decompress them ?
> I tried it with gzip:

> gzip -d -v myarv.tar.bz2

Use the same flags with Bzip2 instead.
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I believe Red Hat's version of the tool is the one that uses the -j
option.  GNU tar itself uses -y to indicate bzip2 usage, which is more
consistent with -z for gzip.

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