Ubuntu: Extract tar.bz2 archives
by admin on Jan.16, 2011, under Linux (Ubuntu)
Recently I wanted to extract a tar.bz2 file. Usually I always used an application called bunzip2 for this purpose, however I wanted to find out whether there was a way to extract those files with tools that already ship with Ubuntu or not. After doing some research I found out tar.bz2 files can be extracted with the following command:
tar jxvf firefox-3.5.tar.bz2
And that’s it! Please keep in mind that you have to install bzip2 in order to use the above command.
apt-get install bzip2
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October 10th, 2011 on 22:22
I’ve been reading your blog a few times and this is the first time I feel like I need to comment. Very nice writing indeed.
January 25th, 2012 on 14:41
thanks, very helpful for me. 🙂