On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 03:42:15PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > running tar xf is asking tar to do something it cannot do, at least not > yet.
Says the wheezy user. The newer tar versions will auto-detect the compression type and run the appropriate decompression program. wooledg:~$ tar tvf manpages_3.74.orig.tar.xz | head drwxr-xr-x mtk/mtk 0 2014-10-02 18:01 man-pages-3.74/ drwxr-xr-x mtk/mtk 0 2014-10-02 18:01 man-pages-3.74/man2/ ... (Don't ask why I have that file; it was simply the first *.tar.xz I found.)
