Extracting SuperKaramba
 

I'm running Mandrake 10.0 with KDE, and trying to extract superkaramba-0.34-1.tar.gz by typing:

tar -zxvf superkaramba-0.34-1.tar.gz cd superkaramba-0.34-1

When I do (this is as root), I get this:

tar: cd: Not found in archive
tar: superkaramba-0.34-1: Not found in archive
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

I'm following the install instructions on the SuperKaramba site, but they don't seem to be doing much good >.<. Given, it doesn't help that I'm a newbie. Help, please?

--Jimbab

They left out ';'. You're going to need this so you can execute two different commands. Right now the tar command is parsing, 'cd' since you don't have the ';' appended between the two commands.

Try this:
I appended the '*' wildcard so the shell would read the file and understand the characters after 'r' and before '-'. =) Hope this helps.

Hmm... Well, that did do something, apparently :D.

[root@localhost superkaramba-0.34-1]# tar -zxvf super*.tar.gz; cd super*-1
tar (child): super*.tar.gz: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
bash: cd: super*-1: No such file or directory

Sadly, it wasn't the right something!
I've already created the superkaramba-0.34-1 directory, so the files have a place to go once extracted, but it's still not working for me.
:newbie:

--Jimbab

Check the directory for the file name exactly. I'm kind of showing you blind here. Is the file in the directory at all?

Let's see... I've moved super*-1.tar.gz into the super*-1 directory.

[root@localhost superkaramba-0.34-1]# dir
superkaramba-0.34 superkaramba-0.34-1.tar.gz

And when I used

tar -zxvf superkaramba-0.34-1.tar.gz

I got a huge set of errors, here are the last three:

tar: ./superkaramba-0.34/subdirs: Cannot change ownership to uid 501, gid 501: Operation not permitted
./superkaramba-0.34/TODO
tar: ./superkaramba-0.34/TODO: Cannot change ownership to uid 501, gid 501: Operation not permitted
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

Should I try typing in the whole filename?

Well the directory should be there now, as it says right there =) Just forget the -1.

The directories name is, superkaramba-0.34.

Thanks for all the help there. I found an RPM of SuperKaramba, but I think it would've worked with that souce had I known had (which I'm pretty sure I now do). Thanks very much :D