I am trying to extract a .tar.xz
file on my Ubuntu Mate computer. No matter what I do, I get this error:
xz: (stdin): File format not recognized
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
I have done the following (although my repeated attempts to circumvent the error may highlight my ignorance):
tar xf file.tar.xz
Then,
unxz file.tar.xz #results in file.tar
That time, I got this similar error:
unxz: file.tar.xz: File format not recognized
Then, I did this:
tar -xJf file.tar.xz
Etcetera…
I tried updating/installing tar and xz-utils using
sudo apt-get install xz-utils
for x-utils
, and
sudo apt-get install tar
for tar
. They both updated/installed successfully, but when I did the above things again, I got the same errors.
EDIT ONE
When I use:
file file.tar.xz
I get
file.tar.xz: HTML document, UTF-8 Unicode text, with very long lines
When I try to open it with Engrampa using
engrampa file.tar.xz
I get the same error mentioned above.
I am running Ubuntu Mate 16.04 on the Raspberry Pi 3.
The output of
apt list xz-utils
is
Listing... Done
xz-utils/xenial,now 5.1.1alpha+20120614-2ubuntu2 armhf [installed]
The output of
xz --version
is
xz (XZ Utils) 5.1.0alpha
liblzma 5.1.0alpha
The output of
tar --version
is
tar (GNU tar) 1.28
Copyright (C) 2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Liscense GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/lisenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
Written by John Gilmore and Jay Fenlason.
I obtained the file (pepper-flash-v.20.0.0.228r1.tar.xz) by using the command line
wget http://dl.free.fr/qVkzvqSiB -O pepper-flash-v20.0.0.228-r1.tar.xz
EDIT TWO
Thanks for all your answers. This question is closed.
Best Answer
indicates that I downloaded a website. That's why it won't extract.