

(2.8.3 is still used in Mojave, albeit with various, minor-looking, darwin-specific patches accumulated over the years if I understand correctly. And OS X 10.7.x shipped with libarchive 2.8.3.
#TAR XZ UNZIP MAC ARCHIVE#
File and archive management tools such as. It works from all platforms including Windows, Linux, Mac OS. Full support for secure encryption ZIP AES 256bit. Upload your archive and run the decompression. OS X 10.6.x shipped with libarchive 2.6.2. GZ, TAR.BZ, TAR.XZ and extracting numerous additional formats. The feature is present back to macOS 10.7, but it is configured off until macOS 10.9.įound some info about OS X and libarchive versions.

For example, OS X Mountain Lion does not have /usr/lib/liblzma.dylib, nor /usr/lib/liblzma.5.dylib, see this post and the table from this post.Īs this StackOverflow answer rightly points out, the xz/lzma feature of bsdtar is configurable at compile time. Choose the files you want to extract/open and click on the Extract To icon at the top.

xz can not be extracted by the native gunzip on OS X because this library is not present. directories/files it contained) should appear in the same directory the tar.gz file is in (to prevent clutter, consider placing the tar.gz file in a new, empty directory before double clicking on it) One of the new files might be a unix executable that. If you have a TGZ file to open, ensure that the GZ and TAR file. Note: The library liblzma is required to extract. The file will uncompress into the current. PeaZip can read RAR files, but it cannot write them, the one missing. Replace FILE with the filename of the file you are trying to uncompress. xz files - so it is sure to also work on Yosemite. PeaZip is a free tool for creating and opening ZIP files quickly and easily. In Mavericks (10.9.5), you can use gunzip in a terminal to extract.
