cannot extract tar.gz on Back Track 5

[kiedis]

hi

i downloaded XAMPP for Linux but cannot extract tar.gz archive

xampp-linux-1.8.1.tar.gz is located on my desktop and i follow these steps provided in instruction:

1. type in su in shell

2. type in tar xvfz xampp-linux-1.8.1.tar.gz -C /opt

and i get error "Cannot open: no such file in directory. Error is not recoverable: exiting now. Child returned status 2"

also tried to use tar -zxvf xampp-linux-1.8.1.tar.gz, got the same error

[levi_silva]

It seems that tar command is not finding the xampp tar gz file.

Run cd ~/Desktop/ and after that run the tar command again.

[kiedis]

excellent, it helped!

thank you levi_silva

[Irithori]

Out of curiosity: What is the usecase of xampp on a security tool/OS like backtrack?

[kiedis]

Out of curiosity: What is the usecase of xampp on a security tool/OS like backtrack?

nothing fancy, i'm just setting up a web server on my LAN for testing purposes.. my spare PC just happens to run Backtrack