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

For bz2 you need to execute like this,

tar -jxvf

Alternatively, you can also execute like this

bunzip2 myfile.tar.bz2

For more information you should check it,

tar --help

If in doubt, run file on the archive to make sure it actually is compressed in bz2 format.

Answer 2

You may need to install the bzip2 on your system.

yum -y install bzip2

I got the same problem . I have two server.

A: CentOS 7.6 Min install

B: Fedora 29 Workstation

On B:create a tarball with:

tar -jcvf  XXX.tar.bz2   /Path_to_my_dir

Then scp this tarball to A server to decrompress it, but when I want to decompression it I got the same error.Finally it turns out that, tar could work with bzip2 but you have to install it first .