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well i have a dvd disk that has lots and lost of programs and i want to install a game called flight Gear, i typed this in the shell
"tar -xvf gaim-tar:/root/desktop/flightgear/fgfs-base-0.0.1a.tar.gz"
thats the location and all it said was is a error can someone tell me the right code for this please?
Last edited by FuLL-On-Newbie; 04-05-2003 at 07:42 PM.
i mean do you have to type the "-" next to the word "package"
do you have to write the right location like dev/game/BLAH BLAH BLAH?
or do you just write the files name.
(if you want to we can speak through msn messenger my email is erks90@hotmail.com)
Last edited by FuLL-On-Newbie; 04-05-2003 at 09:56 PM.
I done the first intructions "mount /mnt/cdrom" and this is what it said "line 12 in /etc/fstab is bad. line 13 in /etc/fstab/is bad
according to mtab, /dev/cdrom is already mounted on /mnt/cdrom"
well i did everthing but theres all way a error i writ down tar and stuff and it was compiling until it said "i think its not a tar" well it is "filename.gz.tar" thats what the filename is, do i ment to put another code instead of tar?
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