Extract gnutls library files of tar.xz and tar.lz for ubuntu 10.04 LTS

Question

I am very new to linux platform and I want to extract gnutls for ubuntu. If I do,

$ls

then, it will show these files below.

gnu         


        

Answer 1

1. Install lzip.

2. Launch the following command that creates xxx.tar file and deletes the xxx.tar.lz file after extracting:

   lzip -d xxx.tar.lz 
   

3. Launch the following command to finally untar:

   tar zxvf xxx.tar