How To Download A .tar File?

[garmanma]

I want to download a calendar program. The file, Rainlendar-lite-2.1.tar.bz2, downloaded to Archive Manager. I clicked "open" and It didn't do anything. I minimized it, to read the help files, which wasn't any help, and I must have closed the Download Manager. Now I can't even find that. Where is it located? When I do find it, how do I unzip and download the program?

Thanks

Mark

Edited May 26, 2007 by garmanma

[iccaros]

just save it, the second option, Archive Manager should have opened it, but if if fails you have to start over.

[shanenin]

you could also use the tar command from the command line to extract it(untar it)

tar -xf Rainlendar-lite-2.1.tar.bz2

the "x" option tells it to extract it

the "f" option tells it what file to extract

Edited May 26, 2007 by shanenin

[garmanma]

Well, I got the program installed. Now, I would like to get it to run at start up. Arsgeek.com gave the instructions to open the terminal, and type in:

cd /Desktop

sudo mv rainlendar2 /opt/

That's supposed to put it in the /opt directory.

I opened the terminal, it already says

garmanma@garmanma-desktop:~$

I enter the command and it comes back saying:

"bash cd: /Desktop: No such file or directory"

I thought I typed it exactly, spaces and all but apparently I'm doing something wrong

Thanks

Mark

Edited May 28, 2007 by garmanma

[shanenin]

Desktop is a directory located in your home directory, not your root directory

this command gives the full location of it

cd /home/username/Desktop

since you are already in your "Home" directory, you can just do this. Note, their is not prevailing "/"

cd Desktop

http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/tasks/cd1.html

Edited May 28, 2007 by shanenin

[garmanma]

No luck so far. Here's what I did. I opened terminal and the line "garmanma@garmanma-desktop:~$" was already in the box. I entered "sudo mv rainlendar2 /opt/" and "Password:" came up on the screen. I typed in my admin. password but nothing showed up on the screen while doing so. No dots or asterisks. I hit enter and it came back "garmanma@garmanma-desktop:!$" again. I entered "sudo mv rainlendar2 /opt/" again and it comes up "no such file or directory".

Is it supposed to say "garmanma@garmanma-desktop:~$" when it opens? I know I'm typing something wrong, because I typed some of the entries on the site you posted and nothing happened. Time to take a break and eat some ribs

Mark

[shanenin]

as to typing in the password, that is normal, not to show any characters being typed. The mv command does not give output(unless specified with the -v option), so that means it moved correctly without errors. When you tried it a second time you got an error about the file not being there. This is because you already moved it to the /opt directory.

Try the ls command. It will list the contents of a directory

ls /opt

it should list the file you just moved there

Edited May 29, 2007 by shanenin

[garmanma]

That was it What threw me off was not seeing any type of characters when typing the password.