Using the Konsole - by a complete Linux newbie!

[Robert Spanjaard]

On Wed, 27 Jun 2007 08:55:44 +0100, Madeleine Rollason wrote:

> I'm a student with the Open University here in England, and need to use 
> XAMPP for my studies, I have tried several times to download and install 
> it through the Konsole with no affect.  It gets saved to my desktop as a 
> tar.gz file.  I get the following message whenever I try to untar it to 
> the correct place as specified by Apache Friends - help please!
> 'Error Message:' (I have placed x's where my name should be)
> 
> root at xxxxxxxdesktop:~# tar xvfz xampp-linux-1.6.2.tar.gz -C /opt
> tar: xampp-linux-1.6.2.tar.gz: Cannot open: No such file or directory
> tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
> tar: Child returned status 2
> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
> root at xxxxxxxxx-desktop:~#
> root at xxxxxxxxx-desktop:~#
> root at xxxxxxxxx-desktop:~#
> 
> any help would be greatly appreciated

Seems like the file "xampp-linux-1.6.2.tar.gz" simply doesn't exist.
Try checking it for typing- and spelling-errors.

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