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Howto unzip ".xz" file with 7z and lzma

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Problem

I tried to uncompressed a "*.xz" file with both 7z and lzma. But they gave me such message: and with lzma with other option:

Error Output

$ 7z x myfile.fq.xz 

7-Zip 4.57  Copyright (c) 1999-2007 Igor Pavlov  2007-12-06
p7zip Version 4.57 (locale=C,Utf16=off,HugeFiles=on,4 CPUs)

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Fix for: Howto unzip ".xz" file with 7z and lzma

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Have you tried downloading the XZ Utils from http://tukaani.org/xz/ ? The XZ documentation says: At least the following software support the .xz file format: XZ Utils XZ Embedded 7-Zip and LZMA SDK versions 9.00 alpha and later I don't know if the 9…

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