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pkg.tar.xz file - how to unpack on a Unix or Windows system?

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I am a newbie Unix user. I have a file whose extension is . How can I unpack this file on Windows or Unix? I can use Cygwin but I'm not sure which utility I'd need to use. Any ideas?

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In cygwin, you can use the following command at the command line: . EDIT: note that that's a capital J, which is the flag for LZMA (xz), not a lower-case j, which is the flag for bzip2. In Windows, I would recommend using 7-Zip

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