#22 Extracting tar.bz2 files in Debian

[Anonymous]

I thought I was doing everything right but apparently
not...

I downloaded the file perlprimer-1.1.13.tar.bz2 to my
home directory, which is my pwd. When I run:
tar xjvf perlprimer-1.1.13.tar.bz2

I get this output:
tar: bzip2: Cannot exec: No such file or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

I have tried changing directories and putting the full
path name of the tar file in the command, and I get the
same thing, so I think that's not it. I am logged in as
root. Maybe this is a general linux-noob problem and
not a perlprimer issue...

(I am trying to use this file because something's up
with the Debian packages provided; I don't think
they're actually compressed package files.)

Thanks..

[Owen Marshall]

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Well, the good news is that you're using the tar command the
right - but I can't think why it's not working for you. (I
just double-checked the archive and it's fine) You could
try opening the archive using a GUI archive manager
(fileroller, for example) if you use one ...

It looks like tar is complaining that the file doesn't exist
- so I can't really explain it if you're really in the right
directory!

Note that PerlPrimer recently made it into Debian unstable
(the link on the web page needs to be updated and is very
old) - try the package from here:

http://packages.debian.org/unstable/science/perlprimer\]

Hope this helps,
Owen