.tar.xz won't open

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#30 .tar.xz won't open

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Updated: 2009-09-30

Created: 2009-09-30

Creator: Anonymous

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xarchiver won't open .tar.xz files. At all.

Reproduce;
tar -cJf temp.tar.xz somefiles

Discussion

Giuseppe Torelli - 2009-11-26

Hi,

first of sorry for replying late. Can you please share light on that .xz ?

Thank you,
Giuseppe

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Nobody/Anonymous - 2010-03-21

xz is the new lzma.
See http://tukaani.org/xz/

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Christoph Wickert - 2010-03-27

What exactly do you want to know? xz is more powerful than lzma and has replaced it for many use cases. rpm packages are now compressed with zx for smaller file size.

For more in see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xz
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XZ_Utils

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