Can't extract tar.bz2

[Germ]

netinstall of install of cauldron. Fully updated.

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Loading the archive ‘/home/germ/Firefox Nightly/firefox-123.0a1.en-US.linux-x86_64.tar.bz2’ failed with the following error:
No suitable plugin found. Ark does not seem to support this file type.

I have all the ark plugins. What am I missing?

Thanks

[doktor5000]

Maybe ark needs a rebuild against latest libbz2 ?
You should still be able to extract it with

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tar -xf '/home/germ/Firefox Nightly/firefox-123.0a1.en-US.linux-x86_64.tar.bz2'

What happens it you right click it, then extract to ... somewhere?

[Germ]

That command does nothing and does not give an error message.

right clicking does not give an Extract option for .bz2 files. When I choose "Open with Ark" after right-clicking, I get the error message.

[Germ]

Found a work-around:

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[germ@localhost ~]$ cd /home/germ/Downloads
[germ@localhost Downloads]$ bunzip2 firefox-123.0a1.en-US.linux-x86_64.tar.bz2

Then with the file extracted to .tar, then I can use the GUI to extract the tarball. Right click > 'Extract archive here'

But why does bunzip2 work in konsole but not in Ark? weird...

[doktor5000]

That command does nothing and does not give an error message.

Are you sure the content was not extracted ?

[Germ]

Yes. I executed the command and in a few seconds it went back to the prompt. The file did not extract.