I’m trying to extract an .xz archive (from Download — GNU Guix ) . When doubleclicking on nautilus, the resulting folder is empty. On a terminal, doing tar -xf file.xz fails with message:
tar: This does not look like a tar archive
tar: Skipping to next header
tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
Is it a problem with this specific archive file? Thanks for any help.
Which exact file are you downloading from there? I tried the tar.xz and it tests fine for me, but note that not all of the files are tarballs – some are xz compressed iso and vm images.