bunzip2

[kalkalai]

Hi all,

I want to decompress the .bz2 files using bunzip2. I am opening Terminal Command Line and writing the following:

bunzip2 aaaaa.bz2

it keeps decompressing for infinite time...

But when I just write bunzip2 on the Terminal Command Line
it answers as follows:


bunzip2: I won't read compressed data from a terminal.
bunzip2: For help, type: `bunzip2 --help'.


Please can you help me, what should I do??? Thanks in advnce.

[praka123]

for extracting .bz2 type:

bunzip2 package name

or

bzip2  -d pkgname

check your package extensions or post it here.if it have .tar.bz2 etc you need to tar -jxvf pkname like thing to do.

[kalkalai]

Hi praka 123,

thanks for reply... it does not have any tar... it is just of type "pkgname.bz2"

the thing is when i am writing as

bunzip2 pkgname.bz2

on the terminal it takes very long time i don't no how much it would take but i didn't wait for so long... what can you suggest else to do?

p.s. i also tried with bzip2 -d the same things happen

[praka123]

sometimes packages like kernelsources do take time to be extracted.otherwise i think pkg may be corrupted.btw what was that package