trying to install compat-wireless-3.6.8-1.tar.gz

Question

tar -jxvfcompat-wireless-3.6.8-1.tar.gz bzip2: (stdin) is not a bzip2 file. tar: Child returned status 2 tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

please help

Answer 1

Try:

sudo tar -xvzf file.tar.gz