[SOLVED] Cannot untar a tar.xz file

Unisolve · Post by **Unisolve** » 2011/09/25 19:01:36

Searching the internet says I should do:

tar Jxvf gcc-4.6-20110916.tar.xz

or (with a dash)

tar -Jxvf gcc-4.6-20110916.tar.xz

but I keep getting the error: invalid option...

How do I decompress a gcc source tar ('xz' format)?

(What I'm looking to get is gfortran 4.6, if anyone knows a better way.)

Thanks.

Walter

Post by **TrevorH** » 2011/09/25 19:37:35

[code]
yum install xz
(say Y to the prompt)
unxz gcc-4.6-20110916.tar.xz
tar -xvf gcc-4.6-20110916.tar
xz gcc-4.6-20110916.tar
[/code]

Unisolve · Post by **Unisolve** » 2011/09/25 21:31:23

That did the trick - thanks!

AlanBartlett · Post by **AlanBartlett** » 2011/09/25 22:08:50

Thank you for reporting back.

For posterity (and on your behalf) this thread is marked [SOLVED].

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