----- Original Message ----- From: "Steven D'Aprano" <st...@pearwood.info> To: <pan-users@nongnu.org> Sent: Sunday, December 14, 2008 16:09 PM Subject: Re: [Pan-users] Re: compile ?
> 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 I have .tar.gz and did just did what David Shochat said to do. > 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 Little inexperienced is an understatement. Why would I want to print what I am doing? > * 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.) I'm reading these instructions on my Windows desktop and trying things on another desktop so copy and paste is not an option. > * "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. I'm running Ubuntu 8.10. -- Travis in Shoreline Washington _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
