How can I decompress an archive file having .zst or tar.zst? [closed]

Question

I do not know how I can decompress a file having .zst or tar.zst extension . The full filename :- file.pkg.tar.zst or file.xz.tar.zst

Answer 1

The extention .zst means that the archive is compressed by zstd.

• https://github.com/facebook/zstd

The tar command has an option -I (--use-compress-program) to specify a command for compression/decompression.

You can use it as follows.

$ tar --use-compress-program=unzstd -xvf archive.tar.zst

Answer 2

Decompress it in Terminal.

unzstd yourfilename.zst

I know there aren't many resources available but I found this here: http://manpages.org/zstd

Answer 3

If you have a standard cmake + gcc build stack:

git clone https://github.com/facebook/zstd.git
cd zstd/build/cmake
cmake .
make
./programs/zstd -d /path/to/file.zst