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

tar --lzip -xvf gmp-5.1.2.tar.lz

Worked for me

As mentioned below in the comments, you might have to install the library before the command will work:

sudo apt-get install lzip