Decompressing .tar.xz

[Tom H]

>>> 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
>>> gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
>>> tar: Child returned status 1
>>> tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
>>> How could I decompress the archive?

>> tar xvJf texlive-20091107-texmf.tar.xz

> He has to install xz utilities first.
> It's not bundled into tar.

True. Have it installed so did not think of mentioning this "detail." Thanks.