How do I uncompress a tarball that uses .xz?

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How do I uncompress a tarball that uses .xz?

I'm used to extracting tarballs with a -xfz flag, which handles gzip and bzip2 archives.

Recently I've run into a .tar.xz file and I would like to uncompress it in one step using tar, how can I do that?

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4 years ago by Bharatgxwzm

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**sandhya6gczb** · Answer 1 · 2021-07-20T16:47:54

Ubuntu includes GNU tar, which recognizes the format by itself! One command works with any supported compression method, per the manual.



tar xf archive.tar.xz

tar xf archive.tar.gz

tar xf archive.tar

etc. If tar gives a Cannot exec error, you may need to sudo apt install xz-utils first.

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How do I uncompress a tarball that uses .xz?

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