Unable to use tar to run an archive through bzip2 compression

Error:

root:/manasmonitoring/cockdb$ tar -xvjf crosstool-ng-1.23.0.rc2.diorcety.linux_target_2-h99d4681_3.tar.bz2
tar (child): bzip2: Cannot exec: No such file or directory
tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

Solution:

To solve this issue we need to install bzip2

For Ubuntu :

# apt-get install bzip2

Centos/RHEL :

# yum install bzip2

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