How to extract a tbz file.
This is a discussion on How to extract a tbz file. within the Debian Linux support forums, part of the Debian Linux category; --> John Hasler wrote: > Linc0re wrote: > > Why are you trying to compile it? There is a file-roller ...
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02-19-2008, 07:52 PM
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 Re: How to extract a tbz file. John Hasler wrote: > Linc0re wrote: > > Why are you trying to compile it? There is a file-roller package in > Debian. 'apt-cache search tbz' would have found it for you. Just install > it with 'apt-get install file-roller'. Thanks very much. It's working now.       |
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02-20-2008, 04:42 AM
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| Re: How to extract a tbz file. Thus spake Dave Uhring: > On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 09:43:34 -0600, sk8r-365 wrote: > >> Just downloaded the file from http://soft.pmad.net/files/k8055/ Clicked >> (Gnome desktop) and File Roller opened it right up. I then extracted it >> - 6.1MB (6383712 bytes) file. > > Clicky, clicky nonsense! > > [duhring@einstein /tmp]$ tar jxf k8055-utbm-full.tbz > [duhring@einstein /tmp]$ ls -F > Documentation/ LO22.pdf k8055-utbm-full.tbz > K8055/ MacOSX Projet XCode/ src/ LOL! Was trying to keep it *easy* for him ... -- sk8r-365 For brass I will bring gold, and for iron I will bring silver, and for wood brass, and for stones iron: I will also make thy officers peace, and thine exactors righteousness. -- Isaiah 60:17 |
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02-20-2008, 04:22 PM
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| Re: How to extract a tbz file. On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 14:04:40 +0100, Henk Oegema wrote: >> LOL! Was trying to keep it *easy* for him ... >> > I found out (LATER) that ARK can do everything. No GUI can ever do "everything". It is trivial enough to learn how to use system utilities from the shell prompt. If you don't do that you will surely have problems recovering from a situation where your GUI fails to load. |
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02-20-2008, 04:22 PM
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| Re: How to extract a tbz file. Thus spake Dave Uhring: > On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 14:04:40 +0100, Henk Oegema wrote: > >> I found out (LATER) that ARK can do everything. > > No GUI can ever do "everything". It is trivial enough to learn how to use > system utilities from the shell prompt. If you don't do that you will > surely have problems recovering from a situation where your GUI fails to > load. Henk, Listen to Dave here, this is good advise he's given. -- sk8r-365 Hath he smitten him, as he smote those that smote him? or is he slain according to the slaughter of them that are slain by him? -- Isaiah 27:7 |
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02-20-2008, 04:22 PM
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| Re: How to extract a tbz file. Dave Uhring wrote: > On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 14:04:40 +0100, Henk Oegema wrote: > > >>> LOL! Was trying to keep it *easy* for him ... >>> >> I found out (LATER) that ARK can do everything. > > No GUI can ever do "everything". It is trivial enough to learn how to use > system utilities from the shell prompt. If you don't do that you will > surely have problems recovering from a situation where your GUI fails to > load. You are completely right of course. |
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03-07-2008, 02:28 PM
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| Re: How to extract a tbz file. Dan C wrote: > On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 15:29:32 +0100, Henk Oegema wrote: > >> Can somebody tell me please how to extract a tbz file in Debian? >> >> (I tried bunzip2, but get unknown command. >> doing a apt-get install bunzip2 can't find it) > > Perhaps: tar -xjvf <filename> I'm pretty sure the hyphen is depreciated. tar xvjf <filename> Henk, x = extract v = verbose j = bzip2 file extraction support (since it's a .tbz file) f = filename to extract - Ken |
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03-07-2008, 02:28 PM
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| Re: How to extract a tbz file. On Thu, 06 Mar 2008 21:01:36 -0800, Ken Teague wrote: >> Perhaps: tar -xjvf <filename> > I'm pretty sure the hyphen is depreciated. Perhaps it is, but it still works. Old habits die hard. Do you feel better for nitpicking the (correct) answer that I gave to the question? -- "Ubuntu" -- an African word, meaning "Slackware is too hard for me". |
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03-07-2008, 02:28 PM
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| Re: How to extract a tbz file. Dan C wrote: > Perhaps it is, but it still works. Old habits die hard. > > Do you feel better for nitpicking the (correct) answer that I gave to the > question? No, I feel indifferent... but the question is do *you* feel better? |
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03-07-2008, 02:28 PM
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| Re: How to extract a tbz file. On Fri, 07 Mar 2008 06:37:46 -0800, Ken Teague wrote: >> Do you feel better for nitpicking the (correct) answer that I gave to the >> question? > No, I feel indifferent... but the question is do *you* feel better? Do I feel better for having done *what*? I'm not the one doing the nitpicking. > User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (Windows/20080213) Ahhh. Well, that helps to explain things a little. -- "Ubuntu" -- an African word, meaning "Slackware is too hard for me". |
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