How to decompress a .tar.xz file?

Question

There is a file having an extension .tar.xz : wkhtmltox-linux-i386_0.12.0-03c001d.tar.xz

What is the linux command to uncompress it ?

Answer 1

From the Ubuntu Site here.

tar -xJf wkhtmltox-linux-i386_0.12.0-03c001d.tar.xz

Answer 2

If you have a recent version of tar (1.25 or later), you should be able to just type:

tar xf wkhtmltox-linux-i386_0.12.0-03c001d.tar.xz

And it will correctly determine what type of decompression to use.

In addition, you can use tar caf archive.ext files_to_add to create archives, and it will decide which compression algorithm to use based on the extension of the archive.