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Can't extract XAMPP to install

Asked by Micah Clinton

I'm an amateur trying to install XAMPP on my work laptop so I can tinker with Joomla! and make a website for my classes. (I'm a high school teacher.) I've been using this tutorial -- http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=223410

I've only gotten to the part about extracting XAMPP -- which is consistent with apache friends' instructions at http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-linux.html#372 -- and I get this message:

secmicah@secadmin-laptop:~$ sudo tar xvfz xampp-linux-1.7.4.tar.gz -C /opt
[sudo] password for secmicah:
tar (child): xampp-linux-1.7.4.tar.gz: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

What do I need to do to solve this problem, complete the tutorial, and start using XAMPP to facilitate Joomla!?

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#1

Simply change directory where the xampp-linux-1.7.4.tar.gz is located on your filesystem

the command is "cd"

cd name_of_directory

to see the dirs and file type

ls

ls is lower of "LS"

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Micah Clinton (micah-sturr) said : 		#2

That worked beautifully. Thank you for your help. I figured the problem was my ignorance.

Thanks again.