Unable to open tar.gz

Bill Marcum marcumbill at bellsouth.net
Wed Sep 12 14:05:22 UTC 2007


On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 20:55:57 -0600, miner 
  <joh_hunter at shaw.ca> wrote:
> I tried both suggestions from this support list.
>
> Trying tar -xvvzf thunderbird-2.0.0.6.tar.gz was not successful.
>
> My Thunderbird.gz file is located on the desktop.
>
Is the filename capitalized?  Filenames in *ix filesystems are case 
sensitive.  Try typing part of the name and press tab to see if the 
shell completes it. As others have suggested, you could try using a GUI, 
or you could install mc (a non-GUI file manager, like Norton Commander 
for DOS). Or you could install the Ubuntu thunderbird package (it might 
be a slightly older version than the tar.gz).


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