Decompressing .tar.xz

Christian Pleul chrisptex at googlemail.com
Tue Dec 29 17:15:13 UTC 2009


Am 29.12.2009 um 17:34 schrieb Anthony M. Rasat:

> Christian Pleul wrote:
>> I downloaded TeX Live 2009 as a .tar.xz archive and tried to decompress it with
>> 
>> tar xvzf texlive-20091107-texmf.tar.xz
>> 
>> but I always get the following error
> 
> Me too have never seen an "xz", perhaps you should find out. What result come out if you do following command?
> 
> file texlive-20091107-texmf.tar.xz

texlive-20091107-texmf.tar.xz: xz compressed data

Does this help?

The file was downloaded from:

ftp://tug.org/historic/systems/texlive/2009/texlive-20091107-texmf.tar.xz

And all the archives there are "xz".

--
	Christian


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