Two steps forward - one step backward!

[cousinlucky]

Being frustrated that I can not get things to work with my suse 10 os and knowing that it is all my fault I did some good things and some bad last night.

The good part is I discovered the part of my os where I had to check a box marked multimedia and a box marked games to bring these things to my desktop. I also discovered in yast the Installation into Directory where everything was in KDE even though I use the gnome desktop. I switched it to gnome and ran the five os disks and things are better.

The bad news is I put the tar.gz files on my desktop trying differnet things to get them to unzip without success. My usr file was pretty empty so I dragged them in there to be tried at a later date. I had two more left to drag in there and the usr file froze up on me and I can't open it up anymore.

Is there a way to fix that? Thanks!

[techieMoe]

The bad news is I put the tar.gz files on my desktop trying differnet things to get them to unzip without success.

I don't know that I can help you with your freezing problem, but I unarchive TAR.GZ files with the tar command.

tar -zxvf filename.tar.gz

[cousinlucky]

I'm sorry TechieMoe, but I do not know how to enter code into my computer.

[kulturloseramerikaner]

I've never played with SUSE and don't know exactly where to point you, but take a quick look inside your applications menu (the equivalent on your desktop of the windoze "start" button). There should be something there called Terminal or Konsole; it might be in another sub-directory, i.e. applications or system tools or something like that. Click on that and it'll open a new window with a text-line interface; that'll allow you to execute the code TechieMoe posted.

[valemon]

press alt+F2 and enter "konsole". Otherwise it is located on system->terminal->terminal program

[worm5252]

Being frustrated that I can not get things to work with my suse 10 os and knowing that it is all my fault I did some good things and some bad last night.

The good part is I discovered the part of my os where I had to check a box marked multimedia and a box marked games to bring these things to my desktop. I also discovered in yast the Installation into Directory where everything was in KDE even though I use the gnome desktop. I switched it to gnome and ran the five os disks and things are better.

The bad news is I put the tar.gz files on my desktop trying differnet things to get them to unzip without success. My usr file was pretty empty so I dragged them in there to be tried at a later date. I had two more left to drag in there and the usr file froze up on me and I can't open it up anymore.

Is there a way to fix that? Thanks!

Ok buddy first of all if you right click your desktop you can select terminal and it will open a command line interface. That is where you can type in "tar -zxvf <packagename>" to extract the contents of the tar.gz

Not quite sure of why you can not access /usr or why your machine is freezing on you. Try opening a command line and typing in "su -" and entering your root password to login as root. Be very very cautious as to what you do as root, you can kill your Suse Linux and end up having to start over. Once logged in as root type in "ls -al /" to list the contents of your root directory. Using the -a option will show all files and using the -l does a long listing showing the directory permissions in the form of something like drwxrwxrwx or drwxr-xr--

This will at least tell us what the permissions are on the directory as something you have done may have changed the permissions.

To log out of the root account and to return back to your normal account in the command line just hit CTRL-D

Also what are the specifications of your machine, including manufacturer and model numbers of your hardware, as they may not be compatible on the HCL

[oz]

I'm sorry TechieMoe, but I do not know how to enter code into my computer.

Here's a good place to learn some quick command line work:

LinuxCommand.org: Learn the Linux command line. Write shell scripts.

Just follow the prompts.

[cousinlucky]

1000 Thank You's for your help!!

I get a message " code tar.gz not found in archive ".

[MikeTbob]

1000 Thank You's for your help!!

I get a message " code tar.gz not found in archive ".

After you open the konsole window, you need to change to the directory with the downloaded file with this command

cd /path/to/file

For example, if the file is on your desktop

cd /home/cousinlucky/Desktop

tar -zxvf filename.tar.gz

[cousinlucky]

I am going to have to spend a lot of time reading about how to use the terminal as it relates to my os. I only have a problem with tar.gz files. The other compressed files are easy to extract and add to my computer. Is it possible that my tar.gz is messed up?