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

You can extract either tar.gz or tar.bz2 with this command:

tar -xvf ~/sometar.tar.bz2