Some modern .tar.xz files are pre-compiled (binaries). In that case, after extraction, the program was already inside — just run ./program_name or copy it to /usr/local/bin/ . But for source code, the five steps lived forever: unpack, enter, configure, make, install .
And that’s why tar -xf is the skeleton key for almost any .tar.* file on Linux. linux install tar.xz
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