Howto uncompress .txz and .xz files in Linux
TXZ compression seems to be starting to take off in the Linux community. Slackware 13.0 is a Linux distribution that is activley using XZ compression. Slackware used to use gzip and the .tgz extension was used. Now that XZ compression is used the new Slackware packages use the .txz extension. In order to uncompress .TXZ or .XZ files you will need to install the xz-utils package from your package manager or download and compile your own version from source code.
Uncompress Usage:xz -d glibc-solibs-2.9-i486-3.txz
Compress Usage: xz -c myxzfile.xz mybigfile.tar
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