Well this is annoying: No such file or directory

[C4lv1n]

So I'm trying to install aircrack using this tutorial:
forum.aircrack-ng(DOT)org/index.php?topic=7716.0 TUTORIAL: Installing Aircrack-ng Airoscript-ng Airdrop-ng on Ubuntu

and I get up to here: "Upgrading/installing tool "IW" (necessary for use Stacks-mac80211 interface management)" and I'm typing in this command: "sudo wget (http)(://)wireless(DOT)kernel(DOT)org/download/iw/iw-0.9.22.tar.bz2 -O - | tar -jxv"

It tells me that it can't mkdir because permission is denied, and then everything after that tells me that it can't open it because there's no such file or directory.

I've been googling and looking around for a while now, and I've got nothing. No one else installing aircrack seems to have my problem. Help please?


PS: Disallowing the posting of URLs is really annoying when try to get help

[MikeTbob]

Hello and Welcome.
Try to make it simpler by using one command at a time.

sudo wget www.blahblah.com/blah.tar.bz2

Then untar it.

sudo tar -jxv blah.tar.bz2

EDIT:

PS: Disallowing the posting of URLs is really annoying when try to get help

It's a Spam preventive measure and it's worth it's weight in Gold. You'll do fine, just keep posting.

[C4lv1n]

So I did split it up, the first one went fine, but the second one did nothing. And now I only have the cursor, the username@pcname bit at the beggining is gone, and when I try to use the arrowkeys I get stuff like ^[[B

I dun goofed?

[MikeTbob]

So I did split it up, the first one went fine, but the second one did nothing. And now I only have the cursor, the username@pcname bit at the beggining is gone, and when I try to use the arrowkeys I get stuff like ^[[B

I dun goofed?

Log out of the shell and log back in, everything should be back to normal.
So do you see the file you downloaded? Use the ls command

ls

Can you type

sudo tar -jxv filename.tar.bz2

Of course you need to substitute filename.tar.bz for the actual name.
What happens?

[C4lv1n]

Ok, so I typed in "ls", it didn't show my file, I redownloaded the file and retyped the command. It shows up, then I type in the "sudo tar -jxv filename.tar.bz2
" and it's back to where it was before. Trying (I didn't this time) to exit tells me that it's running a process. It may be, but it's not writing anything tio the terminal.

[MikeTbob]

Ok, so I typed in "ls", it didn't show my file, I redownloaded the file and retyped the command. It shows up, then I type in the "sudo tar -jxv filename.tar.bz2
" and it's back to where it was before. Trying (I didn't this time) to exit tells me that it's running a process. It may be, but it's not writing anything tio the terminal.

You did change filename.tar.bz2 to the actual filename right?

[C4lv1n]

Yeah, I'm not a dummy

[elija]

You might be surprised how many people blindly copy and paste from the web so it was a valid question.

So I did split it up, the first one went fine, but the second one did nothing. And now I only have the cursor, the username@pcname bit at the beggining is gone, and when I try to use the arrowkeys I get stuff like ^[[B

At this point it is trying to do stuff. It might just be taking a long time to extract and you don't say how long you waited. You can cancel the command at any time by pressing Ctrl + C

[C4lv1n]

Ok, so I just set it to untar (again)

It's doing a whole lot of nothing, but I'll let it run

[coopstah13]

i don't know why you are using wget with sudo, there is no reason for that

this would make it so you don't need to untar the file with sudo command either

you should only need to use sudo when installing, the download, untar, configure, make steps shouldn't use it and in fact i recommend against it