On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 10:27:10 am Travis wrote: > I have the pan .tar.gz on the Desktop but when I do the command "tar > -xvzf ~/Desktop/pan-0.133.tar.bz2" from the tra...@ubuntu:~/Build$ in > Terminal I get "Cannot open: No such file or directory" etc, etc.
The z option to tar is for .tar.gz and .tgz files, which are compressed by the program gzip. You're using a .tar.bz2 file, which is compressed by bzip2, so you need the j option. Try: tar -xvjf ~/Desktop/pan-0.133.tar.bz2 Travis, I assume you're a little inexperienced with the Linux command line, so I'll give you a couple of hints that may help in the future: * The options mean: x = extract v = verbose (prints what it is doing) j = pass the file through bzip2 for decompression first f = use the file named next * You don't need to type the long file name, which is error prone. As you type the command, when you get to pan- hit the TAB key on your keyboard and the shell will try to auto-complete the file name. (Of course you can copy and paste it too.) * "tar --help" and "man tar" (without the quotes) will give you lots of information about tar. Possibly too much :) * If you're running a modern version of Linux with a decent GUI like KDE or Gnome, you should be able to just double-click the file to get a nice GUI application to extract the files. The command line is more powerful and flexible, except when it's not, but for a single file there's nothing wrong with using a GUI. Hope this is helpful, -- Steven D'Aprano _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
