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how to extract downloaded driver using terminal

Asked by RAJ

I have saved two driver files in desktop folder and trying to extract them using the terminal. Obviously being new to this I need to know the command to locate a specific file from the terminal. Reason being my video (intel 945) and sound card (realtek) are not working.

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Best cac (ca-coget) said : 		#1

I suppose you are speaking about a tar archive? If this is the case just do tar -xvf "name of the archive" and it will be extracted in the current folder.

Succes !

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RAJ (j525721) said : 		#2

Thank you for your quick response but this is all I get.

raj-laptop:~$ tar -xvf Intel-3.4.3006-20051209.i386.tar.gz
tar: Intel-3.4.3006-20051209.i386.tar.gz: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

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RAJ (j525721) said : 		#3

I am retarded, I just needed to put it in a different folder. I guess a drect source.