Hi, was wondering if someone could tell me what might be wrong with my centos installation, everytime I try to unpack a tar.gz file, it unpacks it but when I try to cd into that directory to install, it says No such file or directory.

Im trying to install powerdns webinterface and im using this command

tar zxvf powerdns-webinterface-1.5.3.tar.gz

then i try this

cd powerdns-webinterface

and I get -bash: cd: powerdns-webinterface: No such file or directory

I tried with tar -zxvf and a few other varients I found on the forum but I keep getting that error after the files been unpacked. Im using the root user so I should have permission, I can manually create a directory with mkdir

when I check it seems to have extracted the files to web directory, keeps doing this, so I tried installing Poweradmin and it creates the directory Poweradmin but when I try and cd into it it again says -bash: cd: poweradmin: No such file or directory and when I list all the files in the directory with

ls -F

it lists all files as tar.gz still :/ not unpacked.

appreciate help please

thanks

Once check the content of the tar file as:-
tar -ztvf powerdns-webinterface-1.5.3.tar.gz
It will list all the content of tar file.
So then check if "powerdns-webinterface" dir. is existing there or not. Also check as it may have a different or little similar name to "powerdns-webinterface".

(Note: tar file contents will be extracted into the current dir.)

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Do a long listing
lowercase L there...
Incidentally, Linux is case sensitive, so 'Poweradmin' is not equal to 'poweradmin'

powerdns-webinterface-1.5.3.tar.gz probably unpacks to a directory called powerdns-webinterface-1.5.3

powerdns-webinterface-1.5.3.tar.gz unpacks web/, etc. ( 10 files )
.. when you do 'tar xvf powerdns-webinterface-1.5.3.tar.gz'


Solution : mkdir powerdns-webinterface-1.5.3
cd powerdns-webinterface-1.5.3/
tar xvf powerdns-webinterface-1.5.3.tar.gz

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Thanks for the help, as knudfl said its cus the files are being extracted to web directory so I had to make a directory like knudfl said for it and extract the files in that directory as the powerdns directory isn't being created by default, which worked thanks very much.