Hello,
I have been away from Linux for some time and I can't sort of believe that I can't now access the command line to undertake a simple installation of the Adobe flash player.
I have created an Adobe folder in the home directory in which I have placed the Adobe tarball but the command line says that there is no Adobe folder.

At root I have issued the following commands but the reply is "no such file or directory";
cd /home
cd /home/Adobe


root@XXXXX:~# ls -l
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2010-05-26 16:38 Adobe\ /
drwx------ 2 root root 4096 2010-05-26 16:48 Desktop/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4050435 2010-05-26 17:08 install_flash_player_10_linux.tar.gz

Your help would be appreciated
Thank You

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in the command line to know your current working directory.i believe that /home directory is where the user directory is stored.maybe that you made the directory in one of those user directory.

What's that backslash doing on the end of the Adobe directory?

Try
Then hit the TAB KEY

Yes, it looks like you managed to get a space on the end of the directory name

This is the output withTAB;


root@xxxxxx:~# cd Adobe
-bash: cd: Adobe: No such file or directory
root@xxxxxx:~# cd Adobe\ /
root@xxxxxx:~/Adobe # gunzip install flash player 10 linux.tar.gz
gzip: install.gz: No such file or directory
gzip: flash.gz: No such file or directory
gzip: player.gz: No such file or directory
gzip: 10.gz: No such file or directory
gzip: linux.tar.gz: No such file or directory
root@xxxxxx:~/Adobe #

These are the outputs with pwd;

root@xxxxxx:/# pwd
/
root@xxxxxx:/# cd /home
root@xxxxxx:/home# pwd
/home
root@xxxxxx:/home# cd /home/Adobe
-bash: cd: /home/Adobe: No such file or directory
root@xxxxxx:/home# pwd
/home

Any other ideas guys
Thanks

first, you were in the "Adobe" directory, so I'm not sure of the purpose of the last part of your post.

to avoid any more confusion, I suggest changing the name of that directory like so:

mv Adobe* Adobe (this gets rid of whatever was on the end of the directory name.)

As for the gunzip command, you entered the filename with spaces----gunzip thinks you are giving it 5 filenames to unzip.

Assuming you only have one filename beginning in "install", just do this:

gunzip install*

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just to summarize what pixellany said.just make sure that tar ball is in the said directory.

Or, in the Adobe directory, enter gunzip ins and then press the tab key. As long as there's only one file starting with ins bash completion will complete the file name, escaping any tricky characters like space.

If it's really .tar.gz, then gunzip is not what you need. (I thought OP said "zip")