.TBZ2 File Extension
Bzip2-Compressed TAR File
| Developer | N/A |
| Popularity |
4.0 | 6 Votes |
| Category | Compressed Files |
| Format | Binary |
What is a TBZ2 file?
A TBZ2 file is a .TAR archive that has been compressed using bzip2 compression. Often, TBZ2 files contain Linux programs or program installers. To extract the files a TBZ2 file contains, users need both a bzip2 decompression utility and a tar expansion utility.
Linux (and other Unix-like systems) users often package multiple related files together into a single TAR archive, for backup and distribution purposes. To make these archives easier to distribute, users sometimes compress them using various compression utilities.
Bzip2 is a common, free compression utility. TAR files compressed using bzip2 are often renamed to use the .tbz2 extension. This denotes that the files are bzip2-compressed (like other .BZ2 files) and contain a TAR archive.
How to open a TBZ2 file
You can use 7-Zip (Windows), Corel WinZip (Windows, Mac), Apple Archive Utility (Mac), The Unarchiver (Mac), or PeaZip (Windows, Linux) to retrieve the files a TBZ2 file contains. These utilities can both decompress BZ2 files and expand TAR files.