installing firefox 0.9

[The Edge of the Ice]

On Fri, 27 Aug 2004 08:31:58 -0700 (PDT), Mel Seder <melseder-/E1597aS9LQAvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> I think the second tar -xzvf should work?
> Can anyone help by telling me what appears to be wrong?
> 
> [root at p3 data]# ls fire*
> firefox-0.9.3-i686-linux-gtk2+xft-installer.tar.gz

ok

> [root at p3 data]# tar -xzvf firefox-0.9-i686-linux-gtk2+xft.tar.gz

That's not the file you see above.

> tar (child): firefox-0.9-i686-linux-gtk2+xft.tar.gz: Cannot open: No such file
> or directory
> tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now
> tar: Child returned status 2
> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
> [root at p3 data]# tar -xzvf firefox-0.9-i686-linux-gtk2+xft-installer.tar.gz
> tar (child): firefox-0.9-i686-linux-gtk2+xft-installer.tar.gz: Cannot open: No

Neither is this.

> such file or directory
> tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now
> tar: Child returned status 2
> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

Either use bash's tab completion (or the equivalent in your shell of
choice), or you can just "tar -xzvf fire*".  But read what tar tells
you, and compare to what ls told you.  The filenames really don't
match.

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