untaring flash player 7

jqiam · 10-28-2006, 03:01 AM

when I try to untar the instal flash player file I get a wrong syntax message - can anyone explain the wrong syntax here tar -gxzvf flash_player_7_linux(2).tar.gz
bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('

XavierP · 10-28-2006, 03:28 AM

Just do

Code:

mv flash_player_7_linux(2).tar.gz flash_player_7_linux.tar.gz

and then do

Code:

tar zxvf flash_player_7_linux.tar.gz

You get the (2) when you download the file to the same place more than once. You may want to remove the original file.

jqiam · 10-28-2006, 04:10 AM

ok I removed all the flash player install plug ins and downloaded flash player tried once again to untar it and got the following tar zxvf flash_player_7_linux.tar.gz
tar: flash_player_7_linux.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

XavierP · 10-28-2006, 01:15 PM

Question: are you in the download directory when you try to untar it? The error is saying that it can't find the file. To test do this:

Code:

tar zxvf flash-<hit tab at this point>

If the filename doesn't autocomplete, you're in the wrong directory.

jqiam · 10-29-2006, 01:09 AM

I managed to get flash player installed thanks for your imput.