<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">If I do ls Downloads, with capital D, yes all the files are there, highlighted in colour. How do I cd this Jeff?<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 8:33 PM, CrankyOldBugger <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:crankyoldbugger@gmail.com" target="_blank">crankyoldbugger@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Frank makes a good point. Can you do an "ls" to find the file, then actually cd into that folder and try the command again, starting from the "tar ..." part (ignore the /home/... part at the start). If you're in the right folder then it should work (and the Tab auto-complete should also work).<br><div><br></div></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, 18 Mar 2015 at 20:29 Frank Morris <<a href="mailto:morris.frank.a@gmail.com" target="_blank">morris.frank.a@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div>I've had similar "detected problem" PPP ups on a few VM running 14.04. I've just ignored them...seems fine. </div><div><br></div><div>You've probably already checked but, I've pulled my hair out a bit with two different download directories. The last few posts I saw you working in "Downloads". Is there also a "downloads" directory? Capitalization has spanked me a few times in Linux. </div></div><div dir="auto"><div><br></div><div><br><br><br></div><div><br>On Mar 18, 2015, at 4:50 PM, Raymond House <<a href="mailto:raymondh40@gmail.com" target="_blank">raymondh40@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">What I'm tying to do in open the app for my VPN so I can get to use it.I did this twice before with ubuntu and star sapphire and it worked fine.I have had so many problems with ubuntu on this machine that I did a clean reinstall of 14.04 and now trying to get the VPN to work,even with nothing else on this machine, just ubuntu 14.04 I'm still getting all sorts of "14.04 trouble reports"and it always suggest that I shut down and restart.I think I'm getting close to heave it in the trash bin and get an android tablet.Sorry for the long story.You guys have been great with all your help but why does it not just WORK.<br>.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 4:05 PM, Raymond House <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:raymondh40@gmail.com" target="_blank">raymondh40@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">I hit tab and nothing happens, yet, if I go to downloads, it's there.<br></div></div><div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 4:00 PM, CrankyOldBugger <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:crankyoldbugger@gmail.com" target="_blank">crankyoldbugger@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Well you're in the right folder now (Downloads)<br>Can you start with "tar xvzf inst" (without the quotes) then hit Tab to autocomplete the filename? That's how I avoid spelling mistakes. If you hit Tab and nothing happens, then the file isn't there.<div><br></div></div><div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, 18 Mar 2015 at 15:58 Raymond House <<a href="mailto:raymondh40@gmail.com" target="_blank">raymondh40@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">here is what I get:raymond@raymond-HP-Pavilion-TS-15-Notebook-PC:~$ cd ~/Downloads; tar xvzf installer_linux.tar.gz<br>tar (child): installer_linux.tar.gz: Cannot open: No such file or directory<br>tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now<br>tar: Child returned status 2<br>tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now<br>raymond@raymond-HP-Pavilion-TS-15-Notebook-PC:~/Downloads$ <br><br><br><br><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 3:56 PM, Stephen M. Webb <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:stephen.webb@canonical.com" target="_blank">stephen.webb@canonical.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span>On 15-03-18 03:53 PM, Raymond House wrote:<br> > if I do that I get the following:bash: /home/raymond/Downloads/: Is a directory<br> <br> </span>Maybe this?<br> <br> cd ~/Downloads; tar xvzf installer_linux.tar.gz<br> <span><br> --<br> Stephen M. 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