Error fur Fedora 8 & XAMPP

[jjasher325]

Version of XAMPP download : xampp-linux-1.6.8a

Version of Linux : Fedora 8

after download the following message display after first attempt in terminal:

[User@localhost~]$ su
password:
[root@localhost username]# tar xvfz xampp-linux-1.6.8a.tar.gz -C /opt
tar: xampp-linux-1.6.8a.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


Second attempt relayed the following:

[User@localhost ~]$ su -
[root@localhost ~]# tar xvfz xampp-linux-1.6.8a.tar.gz -C /opt
tar: xampp-linux-1.6.8a.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


helfen Sie bitte

[Nobbie]

>xampp-linux-1.6.8a.tar.gz: Cannot open: No such file or directory

There is no file xampp-linux-1.6.8a.tar.gz - either the file name is wrong, or you are looking into the wrong folder (it has been downloaded somewhere else) or the download has failed.

[jjasher325]

The download is found in user home download, was able to unzip and new folder appeared : lampp (*the old xampp).

Just a speculation, though should the file be moved to somewhere and if so where and how?

[jjasher325]

SUCCESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

my prob was that after downloading the file,

xampp-linux-1.6.8a.tar.gz

I opened terminal and followed command to be exact:

tar xvfz xampp-linux-1.6.8a.tar.gz -C /opt

This morning I awoke read nobbies post and tried:
tar xvfz /home/user/Download/xamp-linux-1.6.8a.ta.gz -C /opt

SUPA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It worked---extracted the file and was able to start xampp.

Thanks Nobbie from a newbie.....lol