Using the Konsole - by a complete Linux newbie!

[Oskar Stolc]

Robert Spanjaard 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.
> 

Hi,

it does exist. The problem is with tar options order. The last one 
should be 'f' followed by filename. Just swap the 'xvfz' to 'zvzf' and 
it will work.

Oskar