Comments on: Extract a tar.xz file on CentOS and RedHat

By: Arun George

Arun George — Sun, 30 Dec 2018 14:10:42 +0000

It works thankyou

By: stare przepisy kulinarne

stare przepisy kulinarne — Tue, 25 Apr 2017 14:00:18 +0000

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By: pawan

pawan — Thu, 21 Apr 2016 13:37:15 +0000

thanks , worked good

By: Justin Silver

Justin Silver — Mon, 27 Apr 2015 18:44:51 +0000

In reply to indra. Hi Indra, There are a few things that could cause the binary to not be found. First make sure that it is installed (on CentOS run yum remove -y xz && yum install -y xz). That should remove/reinstall xz and set the proper file permissions and attributes, but if not make sure that the unxz is in your page (or use the full path to the binary) and double check that it has execute permissions with chmod +x unxz. It could also be that use are using a 32 bit binary on a 64 bit system, or vice versa. Good luck!

By: indra

indra — Mon, 20 Apr 2015 19:10:56 +0000

when i “unxz MPlayer-1.1.1.tar.xz”

the terminal say”no such file or directory”

what happen?

By: Justin Silver

Justin Silver — Tue, 31 Mar 2015 16:49:26 +0000

In reply to haithem Rahmani. You are correct - it's mentioned in the second code section above - but unfortunately this option is not supported on `tar` 1.15.1 or earlier. If you have one of these older version like I do on some of my legacy servers, the easiest thing to do is combine `tar` with `unxz`.

By: haithem Rahmani

haithem Rahmani — Tue, 31 Mar 2015 16:36:49 +0000

you can do that as follows:

tar xJf filename.tar.xz // the “J” is uppercase.