how to uncompress .bz2 archives

[Ladislav Bodnar]

On Saturday 14 September 2002 04:04, Michael George wrote:
> On Friday, September 13, 2002, at 03:31  PM, Olivier Reisch wrote:
> > On Friday 13 September 2002 15:59, hotFusion wrote:
> >> This may sound like a stupid question but I cannot figure out how to
> >> decompress any files with the .bz2 extension.
> >
> > If it's a .tar.bz2, you can also use "tar -xvjf file.tar.bz2"
>
> You can?  I just tried that today and tar complained that the "j"
> option is unknown.  Is there a secret update for it somewhere, or did
> you build the GNU tar for your system?

Then try "tar xvyf file.tar.bz2". See if this works.