Uncompress .tar.xz

Hello All

I am trying to uncompress a .tar.xz file.

Can somebody suggest me a command as tar -Jxf <filename> gives me an error.

anusha@anusha-laptop:/usr/src/gcc-4.4$ tar -Jxf gcc-4.4.3.tar.xz
tar: xz: Cannot exec: No such file or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors

Thanks,
Aravind.

You can man xz to see your options.

Drop the tar and use:

Code:

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xz -dl <filename>

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Then use tar. :P

use the command:

unxz <file.tar.xz>

then use tar to decompress.

unxz -c file.tar.xz | tar xv

Open synaptic and check if you've got installed:
xz-utils
If not, install it.

If you want you may do this in terminal:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install xz-utils

then, right-click and extract
or, in terminal:
$ tar -Jxf [filename]