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Please help me to install Xampp on ubuntu 10.10.I tried the procedure mentioned in Xamp installtion procedure but not working.Getting error same as below.

tar xzf xampp-linux-1.7.3a.tar.gz-C/opt
tar (child): xampp-linux-1.7.3a.tar.gz-C/opt: 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

I tried copy the xampp extracted folder manually to OPT folder but it saying no permission.Please help me urgently.

1st: wrong forum. This is a german forum. Next time post in the english part of this board.
2nd: use the board search. There is a post with exact the same problem just a few days ago => viewtopic.php?f=17&t=41995

Altrea wrote:1st: wrong forum. This is a german forum. Next time post in the english part of this board.
2nd: use the board search. There is a post with exact the same problem just a few days ago => viewtopic.php?f=17&t=41995

Thanks.I was new here thats why please ignore I will post in english forum

But you can read and you can scroll a page down.
We can expect that someone who starts a post here first reads the board rules and tries to find the right forum for his post.

That are the basics in every support board.

Madav wrote:tar xzf xampp-linux-1.7.3a.tar.gz-C/opt
tar (child): xampp-linux-1.7.3a.tar.gz-C/opt: 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

Hi,

just to bring it to the point.
Instead of wasting 3 posts to explain where this thread should have started, it's one line to explain what he did wrong while extracting:

The correct command to extract is:

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tar xzf xampp-linux-1.7.3a.tar.gz -C /opt/

All you did wrong was, you forgot to respect the spaces between *.tar.gz -C /opt/

Regards,
Kristian