On 8/23/25 9:08 PM, Marco Moock wrote:
On 23.08.2025 20:55 ToddAndMargo via users
<users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote:
$ tar xjvf
/home/CDs/Linux/Thunderbird/betterbird-140.2.0.9.en-US.linux-x86_64.tar.xz
bzip2: (stdin) is not a bzip2 file.
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
$ tar xzvf
/home/CDs/Linux/Thunderbird/betterbird-140.2.0.9.en-US.linux-x86_64.tar.xz
gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
-j is for bzip2. Your file isn't bzip2 compressed. The file name
indicates that, but is irrelevant for the system. Use
file betterbird-140.2.0.9.en-US.linux-x86_64.tar.xz
to identify the real type.
For xz (as the file name indicates), use -J (uppercase).
You can also leave out the option at all and tar will check which
compression is being used.
That did the trick. Thank you!
On the Search I made, the J was capitalized, but I read it
as a small j
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