On 12/29/2018 01:15 AM, Rand .J wrote: > I'm trying to run this code from : https://github.com/pnnl/*safekit* ,using > cmd on windows 10, I already installed python. when I type the command: tar > -xjvf data_examples.tar.bz2 > > I keep getting the error: tar: Error opening archive: Can't initialize > filter; unable to run program "bzip2 -d"
It means that tar is unable to run bzip2 as a child process. Most likely it simply cannot find it. > I have tried to download bzip2 through easy-7 zip and GnuWin32 , but it > didn't work. Can any one help me? Thank you Is bzip2 in the path? Can you run it from the command line by itself? Try just typing this at cmd: bzip2 --help If that won't work, then you need to put bzip2 in the system PATH so tar can find it. Normally I run tar and friends via either cygwin or MingW's MSYS environment where tar and bzip2 are installed from packages and are already in the right place. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
