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What is the output of "ls -al /mnt/hda5/Software/Linux packages"?
And why do you have a space in a Linux filesystem directory? Just a
personal pet peeve of mine. Or is that a FAT filesystem?
Looks like you're trying to untar and install as root (#) to me.
I always install it as a normal user and have no problems unpacking
it, but must get proper permissions for the install path. Did you
never get to the installation instructions?
Quote:
To install adobe Reader 7.0.5 using a Tarball installer:
After installing Adobe Reader, you will be prompted to install the browser plug-in (see See To install the browser plug-in: for instructions).
1. Open a terminal window.
2. Use the cd command to switch to the directory where the Tarball archive resides.
3. Run the following command:
tar -zxvf AdobeReader_enu-7.0.5-1.i386.tar.gz
4. In the newly created AdobeReader directory, run the INSTALL script.
5. Add <adobe_install_dir>/bin to the PATH environment variable to allow browsers to launch Adobe Reader, where <adobe_install_dir> is the installation directory of Adobe Reader 7.0.5.
Note: To install in a pre-defined directory, use --install_path=<dir> .
By default, Adobe Reader is installed at /usr/local/Adobe/Acrobat 7.0. You can however, specify a different location.
To uninstall Adobe Reader, simply delete the directory where it was installed.
I know it has been a long time, but this thread appears at the top of the Google search so this may help someone.
When extracting with tar, the default for the root user is that tar attempts to retain the owner:group of the files originally stored in the tar.
When transferring tar files across systems, this may cause problem if the same user does not exist in the target machine.
Using the option --no-same-owner will force tar to extract the files and assign them root as owner.
The error does not appear when extracting with a normal user because in that case the default option is --no-same-owner.
It is commendable of you to try adding some helpful information onto what appears to be unresolved threads. Thank you!
You have noticed that the threads you are adding to are very old (like 7 years in one case).
Generally, we don't encourage resurrecting long-dead threads, though in this case, at least you have contributed something meaningful to the threads. It would have been better if you had created a brand new thread with a good title, and described the problem clearly and provided your solution, and marking the thread [SOLVED].
I would think that Googlers would find that to be a better search result than these older threads that contain other mixed information. Maybe your new thread would have become the new "Top Google Result" for folks with tar problems..
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