How to decompress tar.bz2 in Cent OS/Linux?

[Saman]

Open a terminal and type:

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tar xvjf filename.tar.bz2

Which will untar it to the current directory. Normally it will create it's own subdirectory so you don't need to worry about that.
Just so you know:
tar - Tape ARchiver
And the options:
x - extract
v - verbose output (lists all files as they are extracted)
j - deal with bzipped file
f - read from a file, rather than a tape device

"tar --help" will give you more options and info