I can not install tar.gz

Wiatr · 09-25-2018, 06:22 AM

Hello .
I have Ubuntu 18.04 and I can not install tar.gz packages. How to compile it or what is the walkthrough of this problem.

Code:

tar -xfz filename.tar.gz

suits me

Code:

tar: z: Can not open: There is no such file or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

I am unpacking this manually and opening the file in the terminal

Code:

sudo apt-get install build-essential

./configure

gets in answer

Code:

bash: ./config: There is no such file or directory

Ztcoracat · 09-25-2018, 06:43 AM

Hi & Welcome to LQ.

In order to untar a tar.gz you have to be in the directory in which the tar file is in.

And to run the /.configure command you also have to be in the proper directory for the cmd-line interpreter to see it.

Here's an example:
http://sourcedigit.com/20839-extract...-files-ubuntu/

Wiatr · 09-25-2018, 06:48 AM

is in the correct directory

Ztcoracat · 09-25-2018, 06:54 AM

If you were in the correct directory bash would not have returned this:

Code:

./config: There is no such file or directory

What directory is your tar.gz in?

TB0ne · 09-25-2018, 06:55 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Wiatr

is in the correct directory

Sorry, it can only be one of two things:

The filename is wrong
The directory is wrong

A better question is, what software are you trying to install, and why aren't you installing it through your software/package manager?

Wiatr · 09-25-2018, 06:56 AM

my tar.gz is on the desktop

rtmistler · 09-25-2018, 06:56 AM

Hi and welcome to the forums,

This variety of questions are all disconnected:

Quote:

Originally Posted by Wiatr

I have Ubuntu 18.04 and I can not install tar.gz packages. How to compile it or what is the walkthrough of this problem.

Code:

tar -xfz filename.tar.gz

suits me

Code:

tar: z: Can not open: There is no such file or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

I am unpacking this manually and opening the file in the terminal

Here the answer is exactly what Hazel said. Which is that you need to be in the same directory where the tar file is located. There is nothing wrong with tar on your system.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Wiatr

Code:

sudo apt-get install build-essential

This command is totally non-related to anything about tar. build-essential is a package for compiling code.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Wiatr

./configure

gets in answer

Code:

bash: ./config: There is no such file or directory

Because there is nothing to configure. Where did you get the idea that you needed to configure anything for build-essential?

As I say, your variety of questions are all disconnected. You run ./configure when you have source to build and install. You would install the package build-essential in order to have the tools to be able to build and install. There is no such thing a unpacking that particular package.

Whatever source package you do have would be what you perform the tar xvf call on, however you have not indicated what this filename is.

Once something is extracted, then you can see if it is source, if it contains a configure script, and further, if it contains a README or some other file informing you about what you've extracted.

l0f4r0 · 09-25-2018, 06:58 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Wiatr

Code:

tar -xfz filename.tar.gz

suits me

Code:

tar: z: Can not open: There is no such file or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

Option order is important with "-f". Actually "-f" should be mentioned last. So try instead:

Code:

tar -xzf filename.tar.gz

and by the way, "z" option is not necessary anymore:

Quote:

Compressed archives are recognised automatically, it is no longer necessary to specify -Z, -z, or -j options to read them. Thus, you can now run tar tf archive.tar.gz and expect it to work!

Source: https://www.gnu.org/software/tar/

Ztcoracat · 09-25-2018, 06:59 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Wiatr

my tar.gz is on the desktop

Type this in your terminal.

Code:

cd Desktop

And press Enter.

Than type ls and press Enter. Post the output:-

BW-userx · 09-25-2018, 07:07 AM

plus make sure you have a configure, and not a MakeFile or an automake.sh if you are in the same dir as the source code. 'ls' works for that.

Wiatr · 09-25-2018, 11:43 AM

1

Code:

cd Desktop

2

Code:

ls

in answer

Code:

qjoypad-4.1.0  qjoypad-4.1.0.tar.gz

3

Code:

cd qjoypad-4.1.0

4

Code:

./configure

in answer

Code:

bash: ./config: There is no such file or directory

rtmistler · 09-25-2018, 12:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Wiatr

1in answer

Code:

bash: ./config: There is no such file or directory

To emphasize:

Quote:

Originally Posted by BW-userx

plus make sure you have a configure, and not a MakeFile or an automake.sh if you are in the same dir as the source code. 'ls' works for that.

hydrurga · 09-25-2018, 12:37 PM

I've just downloaded the source code in question (from https://sourceforge.net/projects/qjo...ar.gz/download).

The extracted directory structure does not have an executable in the main directory, you have to go into the src directory to configure and install the application.

The file INSTALL.txt in the main directory explains this. The file README.txt also contains some important information on pre-install configuration.

snowday · 09-25-2018, 12:38 PM

qjoypad 4.1.0 is in the Ubuntu repositories. You can install it with a couple of mouse clicks in the Ubuntu Software Center, or with the following terminal command. Easy-peasy. Hope that helps.

Code:

sudo apt install qjoypad

hydrurga · 09-25-2018, 12:39 PM

More specifically, INSTALL.txt contains the following instructions (obviously replace the ? with the actual subversion number):

Quote:

tar -xzvf qjoypad-4.?.tgz
cd qjoypad-4.?/src
./config
make
make install