installing cabextract_1.2.tar.gz

[darthman8]

Can somebody give me some help on this matter,
i am trying to install ie4linux, i have installed wine and downloaded cabextract to home/downloads/.
If i type ls downloads it displays the file but when i try to make a directory for it, it displays no such file . Have tried in user and root same result. I am not typing something right here or maybe the directory already exist,s can you show me how and what i need to do to install this file along with the ie download in the same directory
cheers ian

PS: i am a newbie to terminal as you can see

[Kieren]

Hi Ian

Not to sure on your problem. Are you trying to create a directory or decompress your file?

To make a directory just type:

mkdir newDirectory

And if you want to decompress your file type:

gunzip cabextract_1.2.tar.gz
tar -xf cabextract_1.2.tar

[darthman8]

Hi Kieren,
i have followed instructions from techiemoe, he downloads to /usr/local/src/ i download to /home/--/downloads/. i think the problem is the directory has not been found with cabextract in it even though i have used the mkdir. As a newbie i am not sure if i need to copy the downloaded file into the directory i have just created. If i test the directory out it does not show the downloaded file so i think i need to get this part working properly , rest should be straight forward. I am using Kubuntu 7.04 using user or su does not make any difference still end up with a directory error. Do you extract a tar file or decompress it
ian

[Kieren]

Where can I find techiemoe 's instructions?

[darthman8]

it was posted i linux tutorials - how to originally by jason lambert, this artical is well written

I have just unzipped the file cabextract not sure how to proceed from here any quick methods!!

ian

[Kieren]

I'll take it that the article you are refuring to is: http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/lin...are-linux.html

Try typing ls /usr/local/src/ to see if it does exist. Here is my output from creating the folder and making a file inside of it:

bash-2.05# ls /usr/local/src/
/usr/local/src/: No such file or directory
bash-2.05# mkdir /usr/local/src/
bash-2.05# ls /usr/local/src/
bash-2.05# touch /usr/local/src/myfile
bash-2.05# ls /usr/local/src/
myfile

[darthman8]

Thanks Kieren ,
Did you have this problem will not go any futher keeps timing out when i install
ies4linux

Downloading everything we need
DCOM98.EXE
--15:53:26-- http://download.microsoft.com/downlo...a51/DCOM98.EXE
=> `/home/ianadds666/.ies4linux/downloads/DCOM98.EXE'
Resolving download.microsoft.com... 1.0.0.0
Connecting to download.microsoft.com|1.0.0.0|:80... failed: Connection timed out.

[Kieren]

No I've never had a problem like that.

It looks like DNS isn't working. It seems to think download.microsoft.com has an IP address of 1.0.0.0. This is obviously wrong and that is why the installation cannot connect to it.

I'm afraid I don't know how to fix this problem but hopefully someone else might. You may need to post the problem in the Networking section