(SOLVED) How to un-tar a .tar.gz

[snowflake_nz]

Okay, I'm pretty much an intermediate user of linux, but when it comes to un-tarring a file, well to say the least I keep banging my head against a brick wall.

I've tried using this guide (http://www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/softinstall.html), but I just don't seem to get it right.
Can someone please give me a step by step guide as what to do?

The file is 120176-kopete-mxit-0.02.tar.gz and is located in /home/downloads

TIA
:P :P



UPDATE: 9 JULY 2010
Just add Google talk (google username, etc to Jabber) and from there just add your mxit contacts to a new group as follows their/phone/number@mxit.co.za (please use the international format)

[Ole Juul]

Re: How to un-tar a .tar.gz

tar xvfz 120176-kopete-mxit-0.02.tar.gz doesn't work?

[Fintan]

Re: How to un-tar a .tar.gz

Conversely navigate to that file in dolphin->right click and choose extract (make you own choice on how / where)

Hope that helps

[snowflake_nz]

Re: How to un-tar a .tar.gz

tar xvfz 120176-kopete-mxit-0.02.tar.gz doesn't work?

Hi there Ole Juul
tried that, but unfortunately it didn't work. Here's the output to the command

tanya@tanya-laptop:~$ tar xvfz 120176-kopete-mxit-0.02.tar.gz
tar: 120176-kopete-mxit-0.02.tar.gz: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
tanya@tanya-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get tar xvfz 120176-kopete-mxit-0.02.tar.gz
[sudo] password for tanya:
E: Invalid operation tar
tanya@tanya-laptop:~$

[snowflake_nz]

Re: How to un-tar a .tar.gz

Conversely navigate to that file in dolphin->right click and choose extract (make you own choice on how / where)

Hope that helps

Hi Fintan
I right-clicked and chose to extract to the same folder (downloads). It then showed a few text files & a few folders. Once of the files is a ReadMe:
A Kopete plugin that allows you to chat on MXit(www.mxit.co.za).

Compiling

mkdir build
cd build
cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=`kde4-config --prefix` ..

Jimi Smith <smithj002@gmail.com>

and then I start banging my head on the wall again ;-0

[Fintan]

Re: How to un-tar a .tar.gz

Okay, so you got it extracted.

The read me is basicly telling how to compile (install) the plugin.

I am no expert at compiling software but here goes:
- install build-essential:
In a terminakl (konasole) do:

sudo apt-get install build-essential

When that is done navigate to the folder your plugin lives in with dolphin and open a terminal there view->panels->terminal.

Now for the fun part:
do these comannds from the terminal:
you can copy and paste but make sure the syntax is correct.
Especially the last command!!!

mkdir build

this will make the build directory

cd build

this changes into the build directory

cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=`kde4-config --prefix` ..

this will compile your plugin (hopefully)

If there any errors post them here.

Good luck and enjoy

[miKeyBabid]

Re: How to un-tar a .tar.gz

also -- and this is just a guess -- but I think the reason that your untar command didn't work may have been because you didn't "cd" to the file's location before running your commands.

Mike

[Fintan]

Re: How to un-tar a .tar.gz

tar: 120176-kopete-mxit-0.02.tar.gz: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

Yep

[GreyGeek]

Re: How to un-tar a .tar.gz

What is the md5sum of your tar file. My download of 120176-kopete-mxit-0.02.tar.gz from http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php...content=120176 gave an md5sum of: f148287fcbeed1aab6e506e498dd634d

If yours is the same then the md5sum should be the same. If it is not then the file has been modified by someone.

[snowflake_nz]

Re: How to un-tar a .tar.gz

Okay, so you got it extracted.

The read me is basicly telling how to compile (install) the plugin.

I am no expert at compiling software but here goes:
- install build-essential:
In a terminakl (konasole) do:

sudo apt-get install build-essential

When that is done navigate to the folder your plugin lives in with dolphin and open a terminal there view->panels->terminal.

Now for the fun part:
do these comannds from the terminal:
you can copy and paste but make sure the syntax is correct.
Especially the last command!!!

mkdir build

this will make the build directory

cd build

this changes into the build directory

cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=`kde4-config --prefix` ..

this will compile your plugin (hopefully)

If there any errors post them here.

Good luck and enjoy

Hi there Fintan
I think I'm missing something small, but here is the output of the terminal in dolphin panel

tanya@tanya-laptop:~/Downloads$ sudo apt-get install build-essential
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
build-essential is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 113 not upgraded.
tanya@tanya-laptop:~/Downloads$ mkdir build
mkdir: cannot create directory `build': File exists
tanya@tanya-laptop:~/Downloads$ cd build
tanya@tanya-laptop:~/Downloads/build$ cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=`kde4-config --prefix` ..
CMake Error: The source directory "/home/tanya/Downloads" does not appear to contain CMakeLists.txt.
Specify --help for usage, or press the help button on the CMake GUI.

[snowflake_nz]

Re: How to un-tar a .tar.gz

What is the md5sum of your tar file. My download of 120176-kopete-mxit-0.02.tar.gz from http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php...content=120176 gave an md5sum of: f148287fcbeed1aab6e506e498dd634d

If yours is the same then the md5sum should be the same. If it is not then the file has been modified by someone.

Hi GreyGeek
I downloaded it from the same site as you mentioned, but I've got no idea about the mdsum

[dibl]

Re: How to un-tar a .tar.gz

In the terminal window, change directory to the directory where you downloaded the file:

cd /Downloads

in your user folder, for example. Then

md5sum 120176-kopete-mxit-0.02.tar.gz

and it will return the md5sum for you.

[snowflake_nz]

Re: How to un-tar a .tar.gz

Okay, thanks to DIBL I've got the md5sum

tanya@tanya-laptop:~$ cd /home/tanya/Downloads
tanya@tanya-laptop:~/Downloads$ md5sum 120176-kopete-mxit-0.02.tar.gz
f148287fcbeed1aab6e506e498dd634d 120176-kopete-mxit-0.02.tar.gz
tanya@tanya-laptop:~/Downloads$

[dibl]

Re: How to un-tar a .tar.gz

OK, that's a match to what GG said it should be, so now you know you have a valid file -- the download worked correctly.

So what's your next move -- you want to untar it? Probably Dolphin will be easiest for you -- just right-click it and choose "Extract Here".

The command line method is

tar -xvfz 120176-kopete-mxit-0.02.tar.gz

[snowflake_nz]

Re: How to un-tar a .tar.gz

Hi there

i was hoping to un-tar it, but I just keep getting errors. It's frustrating especially when I pretty okay with Kubuntu, but I've got no clue as how to untar 1 file.
Perhaps I should just stick to Ubuntu?