With the BSD version of tar included with OS X, you can just do 'tar xf ...' and it will automatically detect the type of compression. GNU/linux tar doesn't do this?
On Friday, May 4, 2018 at 8:07:43 AM UTC-7, Samuel Lelievre wrote: > > - for .tar.gz, do `tar xzf ...` > - for .tar.bz2, do `tar xjf ...` > > Example: > > tar xjf sage-8.1-Ubuntu_16.04-x86_64.tar.bz2 > > > Le vendredi 4 mai 2018 15:38:00 UTC+2, Sébastien Labbé a écrit : >> >> Hi, >> >> I am currently helping someone to install Sage on Ubuntu 16.04. Some >> doc/readme files should be updated on the mirrors. >> >> We downloaded the file >> >> sage-8.1-Ubuntu_16.04-x86_64.tar.bz2 >> <https://mirror.koddos.net/sagemath/linux/64bit/sage-8.1-Ubuntu_16.04-x86_64.tar.bz2> >> >> from mirror [1]. But the readme file [2] does not give the proper command >> on untar it (format .tar.bz2 is not listed). Similarly, the documentation >> appearing in the page [3] does not include the format .tar.bz2. >> >> Sébastien >> >> [1] https://mirror.koddos.net/sagemath/linux/64bit/index.html >> >> *[2] https://mirror.koddos.net/sagemath/linux/64bit/README.txt >> <https://mirror.koddos.net/sagemath/linux/64bit/README.txt>*[3] "Help on >> decompressing the files: >> >> - **.lzma*: tar --lzma -xvf *.tar.lzma >> - **.xz*: tar -xJvf *.tar.xz >> - **.lrz*: lrzuntar *.tar.lrz (you may need to install 'lrzip')" >> >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
