Extract tar the tar.bz2 file error

Question

I tried to extract the tar.bz2 file in Fedora 17 OS. I used the command:

# tar -xvjf myfile.tar.bz2

I received this error message:

Answer 1

This worked for my file:

binutils-2.15.tar.bz2 (Found at http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/binutils/)

bunzip2 your-tar-file.tar.bz2

Your file now looks like this:

your-tar-file.tar

tar xvf your-tar-file.tar

File will finish extracting