.tgz help...

[FosterKarma]

im trying to install the game Overkill, its a tgz and i have the .tgz file in its own directory and when in bash i try to untar it this is what it reads.....

# tar xvfz Overkill-0.16.tgz
tar: Overkill-0.16.tgz: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors

any suggestions?

[khafa]

Hi,

Are you sure you are in the directory where the tgz file resides when you run the command?
You can verify by listing the content of the working directory with ls command

[FosterKarma]

yup its the right file

[khafa]

Can you run these commands and post the output?

pwd
ls -l
file Overkill-0.16.tgz

[FosterKarma]

# pwd
/home/Karma/0verkill-0.16


# ls -l
total 664
-rw-------. 1 Karma Karma 5283 2001-12-15 12:51 0verkill.dsp
-rw-------. 1 Karma Karma 1110 2001-12-15 12:51 0verkill.dsw
-rw-------. 1 Karma Karma 207 2001-12-15 12:51 acconfig.h
-rw-------. 1 Karma Karma 1404 2001-12-16 10:49 aclocal.m4
-rw-------. 1 Karma Karma 16 2001-12-15 12:51 AUTHORS
-rw-------. 1 Karma Karma 14254 2001-12-15 12:51 avi.c
-rw-------. 1 Karma Karma 1718 2001-12-15 12:51 avihelp.c
-rw-------. 1 Karma Karma 7058 2001-12-15 12:51 blit.c
-rw-------. 1 Karma Karma 1174 2001-12-15 12:51 blit.h
-rw-------. 1 Karma Karma 26138 2001-12-15 12:51 bot.c
-rw-------. 1 Karma Karma 5009 2001-12-15 12:51 Bot.dsp
-rw-------. 1 Karma Karma 5237 2001-12-16 10:48 cfg.h
-rw-------. 1 Karma Karma 49416 2001-12-16 04:26 client.c
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 1 2009-12-09 22:18 confdefs.h
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 0 2009-12-09 22:13 config.cache
-rw-r--r--. 1 Karma Karma 2275 2001-12-15 12:51 config.h.in
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 190 2009-12-09 22:18 config.log
-rwx--x--x. 1 Karma Karma 95726 2001-12-16 10:49 configure
-rw-------. 1 Karma Karma 2741 2001-12-15 12:51 configure.in
-rw-------. 1 Karma Karma 5407 2001-12-15 12:51 console.c
-rw-------. 1 Karma Karma 1013 2001-12-15 12:51 console.h
-rw-------. 1 Karma Karma 16 2001-12-15 12:51 COPYING
-rw-------. 1 Karma Karma 4519 2001-12-15 12:51 crc32.c
-rw-------. 1 Karma Karma 98 2001-12-15 12:51 crc32.h
drwx------. 2 Karma Karma 4096 2001-12-16 10:22 data
-rw-------. 1 Karma Karma 15353 2001-12-15 12:51 data.c
-rw-------. 1 Karma Karma 4604 2001-12-15 12:51 data.h
drwx------. 2 Karma Karma 4096 2001-12-16 11:35 doc
-rw-------. 1 Karma Karma 12579 2001-12-15 12:51 editor.c
-rw-r--r--. 1 Karma Karma 6203 2001-12-16 10:29 error.c
-rw-r--r--. 1 Karma Karma 2697 2001-12-16 10:47 error.h
-rw-------. 1 Karma Karma 14 2001-12-15 12:51 FILES
-rw-------. 1 Karma Karma 8342 2001-12-15 12:51 getopt.c
-rw-------. 1 Karma Karma 1662 2001-12-15 12:51 getopt.h
drwx------. 2 Karma Karma 12288 2001-12-16 10:22 grx
-rw-------. 1 Karma Karma 1907 2001-12-15 12:51 hash.c
-rw-------. 1 Karma Karma 883 2001-12-15 12:51 hash.h
-rw-------. 1 Karma Karma 1931 2001-12-15 12:51 help.c
-rw-------. 1 Karma Karma 105 2001-12-15 12:51 help.h
-rw-------. 1 Karma Karma 19572 2001-12-15 12:51 icon.h
-rw-------. 1 Karma Karma 16 2001-12-15 12:51 INSTALL
-rw-------. 1 Karma Karma 13054 2001-12-15 12:51 kbd.c
-rw-------. 1 Karma Karma 1458 2001-12-15 12:51 kbd.h
-rw-------. 1 Karma Karma 3670 2001-12-15 12:51 Makefile.in
-rw-------. 1 Karma Karma 1191 2001-12-15 12:51 math.h
-rw-r--r--. 1 Karma Karma 8045 2001-12-15 12:51 md5.c
-rw-r--r--. 1 Karma Karma 430 2001-12-15 12:51 md5.copyright
-rw-r--r--. 1 Karma Karma 644 2001-12-15 12:51 md5.h
-rw-r--r--. 1 Karma Karma 1623 2001-12-15 12:51 md5hl.c
-rw-------. 1 Karma Karma 2351 2001-12-15 12:51 net.c
-rw-------. 1 Karma Karma 1635 2001-12-15 12:51 net.h
-rwx------. 1 Karma Karma 157 2001-12-15 12:51 purge
-rwx------. 1 Karma Karma 74 2001-12-15 12:51 rebuild
-rw-------. 1 Karma Karma 79967 2001-12-16 10:18 server.c
-rw-------. 1 Karma Karma 5048 2001-12-15 12:51 Server.dsp
-rw-------. 1 Karma Karma 861 2001-12-15 12:51 server.h
-rw-------. 1 Karma Karma 8022 2001-12-15 12:51 sprite.c
-rw-------. 1 Karma Karma 1194 2001-12-15 12:51 sprite.h
-rw-------. 1 Karma Karma 10 2001-12-16 10:49 stamp-h
-rw-------. 1 Karma Karma 3217 2001-12-15 12:51 test_server.c
-rw-------. 1 Karma Karma 5242 2001-12-15 12:51 TestServer.dsp
-rw-------. 1 Karma Karma 1158 2001-12-15 12:51 time.c
-rw-------. 1 Karma Karma 303 2001-12-15 12:51 time.h
-rw-------. 1 Karma Karma 16 2001-12-15 12:51 VERSION
-rw-------. 1 Karma Karma 11613 2001-12-15 12:51 winconsole.c
-rw-------. 1 Karma Karma 6726 2001-12-15 12:51 winkbd.c
-rw-------. 1 Karma Karma 564 2001-12-15 12:51 x.h
-rw-------. 1 Karma Karma 7429 2001-12-15 12:51 xinterface.c
-rw-------. 1 Karma Karma 11953 2001-12-15 12:51 xkbd.c


no need for the last....anyway i already extracted it...i think there is a problem with my compiler because when i put in ./configure this is what i get back....

# ./configure
loading cache ./config.cache
checking for gcc... no
checking for cc... no
configure: error: no acceptable cc found in $PATH

[khafa]

Maybe you do not have your development tools (gcc and the like) installed.

[FosterKarma]

i have no idea what those are

[khafa]

what distribution do you have?
do you have your package manager(yum, apt* etc ) set up?

[FosterKarma]

yes....i re-installed gcc becasue it was saying after that i didnt have a good enough C compiler....then i tried again and now im getting this message


# ./configure
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking target system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking for -p flag to install... yes
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... (cached) yes
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables...
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for g++... no
checking for c++... no
checking for gpp... no
checking for aCC... no
checking for CC... no
checking for cxx... no
checking for cc++... no
checking for cl.exe... no
checking for FCC... no
checking for KCC... no
checking for RCC... no
checking for xlC_r... no
checking for xlC... no
checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... no
checking whether g++ accepts -g... no
checking dependency style of g++... none
checking for ranlib... ranlib
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c -p
checking whether ln -s works... yes
checking for boostlib >= 1.34.0... configure: error: We could not detect the boost libraries (version 1.34 or higher). If you have a staged boost library (still not installed) please specify $BOOST_ROOT in your environment and do not give a PATH to --with-boost option. If you are sure you have boost installed, then check your version number looking in <boost/version.hpp>. See randspringer.de/boost more documentation.

now i went to the website...and i dont really understand what im supposed to do....

[khafa]

It looks like you do not have the boost libraries.
I googled it and it said that popular distributions have a native boost package in their repo so you might consider installing it.
If you are running a Red Hat distribution(RHEL, CentOS, Fedora ) you can do

yum list all | grep -i boost

Then you install boost if you find it in the listed packages