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What command do I use to extract .bz files?
Background: Novice Linux user on RH5.2. Trying install the JDK 1.1.8. Files downloaded have a .bz extension. Using the "tar xvzf jre118_v1_glibc-2.1.2.tar. bz" command gets an error message stating that the file is not in gzip format. Using bunzip2 I get the file is not bz2 extension.
Background: Novice Linux user on RH5.2. Trying install the JDK 1.1.8. Files downloaded have a .bz extension. Using the "tar xvzf jre118_v1_glibc-2.1.2.tar.
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Accepted - file command showed file type as .bz2. But, bunzip2 would not returning a " not .bz2 ending" error. But I cp'd the file into a bz2 ending and I think its working, at least not the same error messages. I had RPM installed the bzip2 from the RH5.2 distribution and I'm thinking maybe I need a newer version as recommended by another? Thanks to all who answered.
Here is the site where you can get it
http://sourceware.cygnus.com/bzip2/index.html