Unable to open tar.gz

[James Takac]

On Wednesday 12 September 2007 11:53:38 ben miller wrote:
> Try tar -xvvzf thunderbird-2.0.0.6.tar.gz.
>
> On 9/11/07, miner <joh_hunter at shaw.ca> wrote:
> > I am new to Ubuntu and am unable to open the Thunderbird.tar.gz file.
> >
> > At the terminal I enter; tar -xvfz thunderbird-2.0.0.6.tar.gz
> >
> > The response is;
> > tar z: cannot open: no such file in directory
> > tar: error not recoverable: exiting now
> >
> > I have tried multiple times without success; printing "sudo" at the
> > beginning of the command did not help. Leaving out the "z" or "gz" did
> > not help. The file is on my desktop and I copied the path and inserted it
> > into the command which also did not make any difference.
> >
> > Also unable to open a tar.bz2 file. I entered "tar jxvf
> > <filename>.tar.bz2
> >
> > What am I doing wrong?
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Hi

Also if you're not already in the directory the file is in, either move to it 
supply the entire path to the file. Also make sure you have it spelt properly 
and not left anything in the filename out

James