On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 03:42:15PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > It would help to run the correct unpacker. xz is relatively new, and the > command is: xz -d packagename.xz. If its a tarball, thats what you'll > get back. If it an image for an sd card, that's what you will get back. > > running tar xf is asking tar to do something it cannot do, at least not > yet. > > man xz can be quite educational ;-) > >From tar(1), on a Debian stretch system:
-J, --xz Filter the archive through xz(1). I am relatively confident that it was there at least in jessie versions of tar as well. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez