Decompression with Cygwin

noob1021 · July 6, 2005, 4:33pm

I am having some trouble decompressing a tar.bz2 with Cygwin. Is it even possible to do this? I am new to Unix so I have no idea.

I downloaded GCC on my Windows machine (gcc-3.4.4.tar.bz2) and I've been trying to decompress and install it. Is cygwin this best way to decompress on a windows machine? Are there better ways?

Thanks,
Matt

Aco · July 9, 2005, 3:10am

Hmm... can't winrar decompress that? If now then download knoppix and run the live cd. Decompress it there and upload it somewhere. Then get back on your windows box and download it from there?

zazzybob · July 11, 2005, 8:29am

bzip2 -dc my_file.tar.bz2 | tar xvf -

Cheers
ZB

noob1021 · July 13, 2005, 9:19am

Thanks to all. I was able to decompress