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7-Zip – An excellent archive compressor / decompressor

Leave a Comment / CLI / By sedlav / April 28, 2016

7-zip is a file compressor with a high ratio of compression. The main features are:

High ratio of compression (LZMA algorithm)
Compress / decompress: 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2 and TAR
Unzip: ARJ, CAB, CHM, CPIO, DEB, DMG, HFS, ISO, LZH, LZMA, MSI, NSIS, RAR, RPM, UDF, WIM, XAR and Z
Robust encryption: AES-256 for 7z and ZIP formats
Allows to create self-extracting archives (SFX)
Command line version
Integration with File Roller, XArchiver and XArchive
Multi-platform
Multi-language

Failed to decompress file .tar.bz2

Leave a Comment / CLI / By sedlav / April 16, 2016

If when you try to unpack a file .tar.bz2, you get the following error messages:

tar (child): bzip2: Cannot exec: No such file or directory
tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: Child returned status 2

You must solve it by installing the bzip2 package

# apt-get -y install bzip2

Error decompressing .tar.xz file

Leave a Comment / CLI / By sedlav / January 20, 2016

When you try to unpack a .tar.xz file you get the following error messages:

tar (child): xz: Cannot exec: No such file or directory
(child) tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

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