Using the Konsole - by a complete Linux newbie!

[Steve Flynn]

On 27/06/07, Robert Spanjaard <spamtrap at arumes.com> wrote:
>
> 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.
>

You must remember Madeleine that linux is case sensitive. Ensure that you
specify the name exactly... the TAB key is your friend here - it will
autocomplete the filename for you.

get to a command prompt in you Desktop directory. An 'ls' command should
show the xampp file sitting there.

enter 'tar xvf xamp' and press the tab key. The filename should be completed
for you with all upper and lowercase letters all correctly specified.

-- 
Steve
When 1 person suffers from a delusion it is insanity. When many people
suffer from a delusion it is called Religion.

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