.tar.bz2 files. How do I extract?

[greenhorn]

I'm running debian 4 r2. I've got this file called: phpBB-3.0.0.tar.bz2 - I'm trying to extract the files so that I can install the program.

How do I extract this junk? I've tried

 tar xvf phpBB-3.0.0.tar.bz2
bunzip2 phpBB-3.0.0.tar.bz2
tar -xvjf ....
tar -jxvf .....

The results I get are either:

  

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

or this

 
-bash: bunzip2: command not found

I understand the issue with the second one. Quite obvious, but what Isn't working on the other commands? Is there some program I need to extract this file type?

I have tried using Google and the search function on this forum, but nothing has worked yet. I'd really really appreciate some help.

Thanks

[wowbag1]

Assuming you have it installed try below

Rename the file you've downloaded to plain bzip2 (or bzip2.exe on Windows), and use it. Unix folks will also need to set the permissions suitably (chmod u+x bzip2).

To decompress a .bz2 file:
% bzip2 -d my_file.bz2

I am not sure what otherutilities support bzip2 compression.

[hugortega]

Actually, the option:

tar -vxjf phpBB-3.0.0.tar.bz2

should work... did you check the md5sum of your downloaded file?

Hugo

[Japser]

Hi, I think you are missing the the bzip2 package. Install it, this will provide the bunzip2 command as well. --Japser.

[greenhorn]

Hey you all.

Thanks for the prompt resonses. What I did was install the bzip2 package, then ran:

bunzip2 php*

that changed it into the tar file, where I was able to use

tar xvf php*

to extract it. Problem solved, thanks again.