Can't get the file to extract....

When I attempt to decompress an extract the latest 1.13.1.6 alpha, I get this helpful set of messages:

./bzip-103-x86-linux26 < ./SecondLife_i686_1_13_1_6.tar.bz2 | tar xvf -
tar: This does not look like a tar archive
tar: Skipping to next header
tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

I've also used gzip and that didnt' help either -- same errors. Is this something other than a tarball? Or did the file get garbled?

bzip2 without any arguments compresses by default, so you're just recompressing the archive and passing the compressed data to tar, which is raising the error.

Use:

bzip2 -d -c SecondLife_i686_1_13_1_6.tar.bz2 | tar -xvf -

Or (easier):

tar -xvjf SecondLife_i686_1_13_1_6.tar.bz2