[Xastir] Still having issues installing Please help

[Ronny Julian]

Great to have fresh eyes!  Thanks!




----- Original Message ----
From: Rick Green <rtg at aapsc.com>
To: Xastir - APRS client software discussion <xastir at lists.xastir.org>
Sent: Sunday, March 8, 2009 11:12:40 PM
Subject: Re: [Xastir] Still having issues installing  Please help

On Sun, 8 Mar 2009, Mike Fenske wrote:

> Hi Ronny,
> 
> Maybe try:
> 
> tar -xvfz xastir-1.9.4.tar.gz
  no, the 'f' option must be last, since it requires a filename.

Ronny, I believe the problem is that you had an unnecessary subdirectory in there.  Try
  tar -xzvf xastir-1.9.4.tar.gz


Rick Green N8BJX

> Ronny Julian wrote:
>> 
>> Following this....
>> 
>> k4rjj at k4rjj-laptop:~$  wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/xastir/xastir-1.9.4.tar.gz
>> --2009-03-08 22:25:55-- http://downloads.sourceforge.net/xastir/xastir-1.9.4.tar.gz
>> Resolving downloads.sourceforge.net... 216.34.181.60
>> Connecting to downloads.sourceforge.net|216.34.181.60|:80... connected.
>> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
>> Location: http://internap.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/xastir/xastir-1.9.4.tar.gz [following]
>> --2009-03-08 22:25:55-- http://internap.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/xastir/xastir-1.9.4.tar.gz
>> Resolving internap.dl.sourceforge.net... 69.88.152.3
>> Connecting to internap.dl.sourceforge.net|69.88.152.3|:80... connected.
>> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
>> Length: 2348880 (2.2M) [application/x-tar]
>> Saving to: `xastir-1.9.4.tar.gz'
>> 
>> 100%[======================================>] 2,348,880    367K/s   in 6.5s 2009-03-08 22:26:02 (352 KB/s) - `xastir-1.9.4.tar.gz' saved [2348880/2348880]
>> 
>> k4rjj at k4rjj-laptop:~$ tar -xzvf xastir/xastir-1.9.4.tar.gz
>> tar: xastir/xastir-1.9.4.tar.gz: Cannot open: No such file or directory
>> tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
>> tar: Child returned status 2
>> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
>> k4rjj at k4rjj-laptop:~$
>> 
>> Where did I go wrong?
>> 
>> Thanks! Ronny K4RJJ
>> 
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