Uncompressing *.xz files

[wread]

We have another file compressor/decompressor; the necessary Porteus module is here posted:

http://www.mediafire.com/?yb45gg4jqm7gzr2

Download it to "modules" and activate. Invoke it in CLI by typing xz -help to see the options.

Enjoy

[brokenman]

xz is already included in porteus .... but this is a more recent version that wread has posted. Thanks.

[wread]

I just tried to decompres a *.tar.xz file with our regular tools and got an empty folder!
So I made this module to resolve the issue. We will all need this version, sooner or later....

Regards!

[fanthom]

@wread
are you sure that archive was not corrupted? could you provide a link to it?
which Porteus tools did you use to unpack it?

[wread]

@fanthom
I downloaded kdelibs-4.8.1.tar.xz from alien.slackbook.org - yes that is the new format of alien sources!-
I tried renaming it to xzm without success. I also used ark with no results. In both cases, I got an empty folder.
Then I went googling and found this program, compiled it, and it worked. Decompressed kdelibs-4.8.1 as expected.

Meanwhile I have compiled the module with Zeroconf capability and posted it in wread.4shared.com as planned.

Regards!

[Ahau]

rworkman has been handling source tarballs as tar.xz for a while now... I've had no trouble unpacking them with 'tar -xvf'. Repackaging took a little more time to sort out: 'tar cvf - directoryname | lzma > archivename.tar.xz' Perhaps alien bob has run it through some other kind of compression algorithm as well?

[brokenman]

Please also try tar -Jxf

[wread]

@brokenman
tar -Jxf Works!
Thanks for the tip, I can spare the 284 Kb, so people, we don't need this module, it was only a momentary tool...

Regards