Cant untar

[MonkeySniper>]

i cant untar any files. I have the files on my desktop i open a terminal and i tried 2 ways but this is what i get.

# tar xvf unrar_2.71.tar.gz
tar: unrar_2.71.tar.gz: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now


and this one too

tar -zxvpf unrar_2.71.tar.gz
tar: unrar_2.71.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

i looked on sites and this is what they say to do to untar but nothing i keep getting errors in Mandriva 06 to untar a file.

[oz]

Have you tried:

# tar -xvf unrar_2.71.tar.gz

I added the -

<edit> you could also try # tar -xvfz unrar_2.71.tar.gz

[AlexK]

when you execute those commands, the command need to be done in the same directory where the file is present, or you need to specify the location of the file.

in 1st case, do:

cd /home/user_name/Desktop
tar xzvf whatever

in 2nd case, do

tar xzvf /home/user_name/Desktop/whatever

[MonkeySniper>]

wow ok that one with /home/marcos/Desktop/unrar-2.71.tar.gz/ it worked i guess it gave me this

unrar-2.71/
unrar-2.71/block.c
unrar-2.71/comment.c
unrar-2.71/compr.c
unrar-2.71/compress.h
unrar-2.71/const.h
unrar-2.71/crccrypt.c
unrar-2.71/extract.c
unrar-2.71/getargs.c
unrar-2.71/getopt.c
unrar-2.71/global.c
unrar-2.71/license.txt
unrar-2.71/list.c
unrar-2.71/lochead.eng
unrar-2.71/loctoup.eng
unrar-2.71/os.c
unrar-2.71/os.h
unrar-2.71/others.c
unrar-2.71/rdwrfn.c
unrar-2.71/readme.txt
unrar-2.71/smallfn.c
unrar-2.71/somefn.c
unrar-2.71/unpack.c
unrar-2.71/unpold.c
unrar-2.71/unrar.c
unrar-2.71/Makefile
but now what do i do ?

[AlexK]

take a look at the readme file, i.e. cat readme.txt (remember you need to supply the path to readme.txt file).

[MonkeySniper>]

is says all i have to do is complie UNRAR.C only whcih i dont know how o do this at all.

[AlexK]

hmm, ok,
There is a Makefile in that directory, it should cntain the commands to be used to compile the program, what you should do is this:

cd /home/user_name/Desktop/unrar-2.71/
make

If it returns make not found, use urpmi to install make, and perhaps gcc as well. i.e urpmi make and then urpmi gcc.