Re: extracting file with xz file tar.....

[Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org>]

On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 03:42:15PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> 
> It would help to run the correct unpacker. xz is relatively new, and the 
> command is: xz -d packagename.xz. If its a tarball, thats what you'll 
> get back.  If it an image for an sd card, that's what you will get back.
> 
> running tar xf is asking tar to do something it cannot do, at least not 
> yet.
> 
> man xz can be quite educational ;-)
> 
>From tar(1), on a Debian stretch system:

       -J, --xz
              Filter the archive through xz(1).

I am relatively confident that it was there at least in jessie versions
of tar as well.

Regards,

-Roberto

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Roberto C. Sánchez