this looks like a bzip2 line

bzip2 -dc foo.tar.bz2 | tar -xf -

gzip files like foo.tar.gz are extracted like this

tar -xzf foo.tar.gz

the z tells tar that the file is also gziped and you don't have to call
gunzip directly this way.

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>gzip -dc packages-0.4.0.tar.gz | tar -xvf -

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