jhbuild can't extract xz files

[Adam Reeve]

I've tried installing xz-utils, xz-lzma and xzdec, but jhbuild always fails to extract xz files when running "jhbuild bootstrap":

*** Checking out guile *** [3/4]
wget --continue ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/guile/guile-2.0.3.tar.xz -O /home/adam/source/jhbuild/guile-2.0.3.tar.xz
--2012-03-17 21:01:29-- ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/guile/guile-2.0.3.tar.xz
           => `/home/adam/source/jhbuild/guile-2.0.3.tar.xz'
Resolving ftp.gnu.org (ftp.gnu.org)... 208.118.235.20
Connecting to ftp.gnu.org (ftp.gnu.org)|208.118.235.20|:21... connected.
Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in!
==> SYST ... done. ==> PWD ... done.
==> TYPE I ... done. ==> CWD (1) /gnu/guile ... done.
==> SIZE guile-2.0.3.tar.xz ... 4196064
==> PASV ... done. ==> RETR guile-2.0.3.tar.xz ... done.
Length: 4196064 (4.0M) (unauthoritative)

100%[=================================================================================================================>] 4,196,064 537K/s in 9.6s

2012-03-17 21:01:42 (426 KB/s) - `/home/adam/source/jhbuild/guile-2.0.3.tar.xz' saved [4196064]

jhbuild bootstrap: failed to unpack /home/adam/source/jhbuild/guile-2.0.3.tar.xz

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[adrenalinedj (adrenalinedj)]

I had the same type of error on Debian Squeeze with "jhbuild bootstrap" and the extract of "automake".

I solved issue by removing the installed version "sudo apt-get remove jhbuild" and by installing the latest git version of "jhbuild" :

git clone git://git.gnome.org/jhbuild
cd jhbuild
./autogen.sh
make
make install

After that "jhbuild boostrap" runs fine !

Hope this helps.

[Dimitry Verkholashin (dimitrygv)]

the .xz filez....

right on target!!! if you have installed jhbuild from ubuntu's debian repository, the bootstrap build will most likely fail.

uninstall ports version of jhbuild and install it from git.

instructions above ^