How to open a .tar.gz file in Windows?

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I need to open a file that sadly is only available in the .tar.gz file format and I am using Windows 7. I can unzip the file using 7-zip but after that I still have a .tar file that I can't open in Windows.

Is there a way to open .tar.gz files on Windows?

Paul · Accepted Answer · 2017-06-08T00:04:09.323

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You can use 7-zip to untar the .tar file as well.

Right-click the file
Select 7-zip -> Extract Here / Extract To

edited Jun 08 '17 at 00:04

answered Nov 27 '10 at 14:51

Paul

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score 64 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 26 '16 at 20:49

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If you can, you can always use bash for windows and just do the regular

 tar -xvzf <filename.tar.gz>

answered Oct 26 '16 at 20:49

Yaron Meiner

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score 36 · Answer 3 · edited Jul 02 '24 at 10:35

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With a recent Windows 10 (1803+, or 10.0.17063+ for insiders) you can unpack a tar archive just like you do it in Linux:

tar -xzf archive.tar.gz

edited Jul 02 '24 at 10:35

Colonel Panic

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answered May 01 '19 at 14:54

Reishin

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score 21 · Answer 4 · answered Nov 27 '10 at 14:52

7-zip should work for you. I believe you have to untar the .tar part of the file as a second step after unzipping the .gz part.

You also may need to check your 7-zip settings...

Click Tools → Options
Go to the “System” tab.
Make sure “tar” and “gz” are checked off.

score 9 · Answer 5 · answered Feb 19 '16 at 21:02

The 7-zip package comes with a command-line tool called 7z.exe that can pipe to and from stdin (-si) & stdout (-so). So the following line will do the extractraction in one step with no intermediary file (-ttar tells 7-zip that we're piping in a tar stream).

PATH_TO_7ZIP\7z.exe x netlib-0.13.1.tar.gz -so | PATH_TO_7ZIP\7z.exe x -si -ttar

Shreyas · Answer 6 · 2012-12-22T18:48:33.170

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I use simple WinRAR extractor to extract .tar.gz file; simply do these steps,

Start extracting the .tar.gz file with WinRAR, it will generate an Intermediate file.
Rename that intermediate file as ".tar" and extract it again with WinRAR.

Now second time it will extract your all files/folders.

edited Dec 22 '12 at 18:48

answered Dec 22 '12 at 13:24

Shreyas

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score 2 · Answer 7 · edited Feb 14 '12 at 13:27

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The problem is that when 7-zip uncompresses the tar file into a subdirectory, you have to go into the subdirectory in order to uncompress the tar file.

If you've tried to uncompress the subdirectory, it won't work of course.

There are two solutions here:

Use 'extract here', not 'Extract files...'.
Go into the subdirectory and extract from there.

edited Feb 14 '12 at 13:27

sblair

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answered Feb 14 '12 at 12:36

Druvision

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score 1 · Answer 8 · answered Sep 24 '13 at 07:44

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Install total commander, it will deal with tar.gz files. You can just go inside such kind of file and copy it to the place you need. Extraction is done by TC in the background.

answered Sep 24 '13 at 07:44

Piotus

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score 0 · Answer 9 · answered Jan 16 '15 at 19:00

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I find Senthil Rajasekharan's TarTool.exe to be the simplest (includes the single dll from SharpZipLib).

Version 1.0 supports gzip
Version 2.0 Beta adds bzip2

answered Jan 16 '15 at 19:00

Sean Summers

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score 0 · Answer 10 · answered Aug 21 '15 at 18:46

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Paul has it correct, but in this case it's a 2-step process. First to remove the .gz(decompress the files) and second to remove the .tar(unpack the files).

answered Aug 21 '15 at 18:46

Mark Sherrill

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