[Gllug] xampp error

John Edwards john at cornerstonelinux.co.uk
Fri Nov 13 20:13:10 UTC 2009


On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 08:06:07PM +0000, Colin Wright wrote:
> Hi,
>  I have downloaded XAMPP to my desktop but get this error:
> 
> Ubuntu-desktop:~$ sudo tar xvfz xampp-linux-1.7.2.tar.gz -C /opt
> tar: xampp-linux-1.7.2.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
> co at co-AMD-Ubuntu-desktop:~$
> 
> It says 'No such file or directory' but it is there - and the file is
> called xampp-linux-1.7.2.tar.gz
> 
> What is going wrong?

Does /opt exist?


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