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Old 09-18-2007   #1 (permalink)
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problem installing ndiswrapper 1.47

I downloaded the code from sourceforge (ndiswrapper-1.47.tar) to my desktop and then:

root@eric-laptop:~# tar -zxvf ndiswrapper-1.47.tar.gz
tar: ndiswrapper.tar.gz: cannot open: no such file or directory
tar: Error is not recievable: exiting now
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
root@eric-laptop:~#
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That error means that the file ndiswrapper-1.47.tar.gz is not in your current working directory.
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The fie is on my desktop.

How do i switch to my desktop directory?
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In the terminal you do
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$cd ~/Desktop
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