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I get this error when trying to install package to /opt directory
root@vipjag2-laptop:/home/vipjag2# tar xvfz xampp-linux-1.7.1.tar.gz -C /opt
tar: xampp-linux-1.7.1.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
the tar package is located on my desktop in ubuntu intrepid. any ideas?
I get this error when trying to install package to /opt directory
root@vipjag2-laptop:/home/vipjag2# tar xvfz xampp-linux-1.7.1.tar.gz -C /opt
tar: xampp-linux-1.7.1.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
the tar package is located on my desktop in ubuntu intrepid. any ideas?
Bathory is correct. You must run tar from the same directory that your tarball is in or else provide the full path to that tarball. You ran the tar program from you home directory
Code:
/home/vipjag2/
but your tarball (according to what you wrote) is in
Code:
/home/vipjag2/Desktop/
So you need to run tar from that folder. That's your problem.
cheers,
jdk
bathory I changed to the /opt/lampp directory and found it was empty so I extracted the tarball to that directory and started the lampp file and it started this time! Thanks for everyone's help. Consider this thread solved.
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