On 6/27/13, Miguel De Anda <miguel at thedeanda.com> wrote: > anyway new gtk/gnome stuff seems to use xz files so replace > > tar xvf foo.tar.gz > > with > > xz -d foo.tar.xz > tar xvf foo.tar What version of Slackware are you using? "tar xvf" works fine on .tar.xz files in 14.0 and IIRC 13.37 also.