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04-05-2005, 07:30 PM	#1 (permalink)
LegendBreath Ultra Techie Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: New Brunswick, Canada Posts: 511	How can I extract a tar.bz2 file? Hi, I got a file with the extension tar.bz2, how can I extract it? I tried : tar cvf binutils-2.14.tar.bz2 /mnt/legend/sources/binutils and tar xvf binutils-2.14.tar.bz2 /mnt/legend/sources/binutils but, it doesn't work... Someone can help me? __________________

04-05-2005, 08:18 PM	#2 (permalink)
horndude Master Techie Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 2,534	tar xjvf <filename> OR bunzip2 <filename> then tar xvf <newfilename>

04-06-2005, 10:00 PM	#3 (permalink)
Amd64Boy Super Techie Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 330	you can extract it with Ark or another archiving programs then if you want to install it just cd into the extracted folder and install

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