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I just setup a new server with a minimal installation of AlmaLinux 8. AlmaLinux is a variant of free Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. It’s like a CentOS 8, but will have a full support until the end of RHEL 8 life cycle. This server is to serve as a new proxy for all VMs inside my home lab. I want to use tinyproxy which is need to be compiled from source as the RPM package is not available as of the time writing....

One way to extract a .tar.Z file: $ zcat file.tar.Z | tar xvf -

Normally, I would bunzip the file first, then untar it next. But I found something after googling for a shortcut: it can all be done with just one tar command. $ tar -xjvf example.tar.bz2 Notice that, we use j flag to decompress bzip2 file and z flag for gzip file. 🙂