Installing games and programs
 

well i have a dvd disk that has lots and lost of programs and i want to install a game called flight Gear, i typed this in the shell
"tar -xvf gaim-tar:/root/desktop/flightgear/fgfs-base-0.0.1a.tar.gz"
thats the location and all it said was is a error can someone tell me the right code for this please?

Try

"tar -zxvf appname.tar.gz"

The file is inside the cd how do i locate it and where do i write it?

First you must mount your cd:

mount /mnt/cdrom

then go into the cdrom directory:

cd /mnt/cdrom

see what files are there:

ls -a

and then install the package:

tar xzvf package-you-want-to-install.tar.gz

Does the word mount have to have a space before the /?

Does cd have to have a space before the /?

does this count package-?

Yes they all have to have a space. What do you mean does this count package? Did you try the commands?

i mean do you have to type the "-" next to the word "package"
do you have to write the right location like dev/game/BLAH BLAH BLAH?
or do you just write the files name.
(if you want to we can speak through msn messenger my email is erks90@hotmail.com)

If you want to unpack a file called:

something.tar.gz

then you would do:

tar xzvf something.tar.gz

I done the first intructions "mount /mnt/cdrom" and this is what it said "line 12 in /etc/fstab is bad. line 13 in /etc/fstab/is bad
according to mtab, /dev/cdrom is already mounted on /mnt/cdrom"

So your cdrom is already mounted. Now you just have to go into that directory and unpack it.

Once we found our file what do we type let me guess this "tar
-xzvf package-you-want-to-install.tar.gz"

well i did everthing but theres all way a error :( i writ down tar and stuff and it was compiling until it said "i think its not a tar" well it is "filename.gz.tar" thats what the filename is, do i ment to put another code instead of tar?

Don't you have to specify a directory if its on the cdrom (as things can't be written there)?

You specify a directory but where do you write it in the sentence, i writ that doesnt work?