Seeing as you're using the 'v' option, every file that's unpacked will be displayed, including the relative path it's being saved to. Try looking there, relative to your current directory, and relative to /hom/alan/gambas.
Steve On Wed, 20 Sep 2006 01:52:24 -0400 Alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Steve Holdoway wrote: > > On Wed, 20 Sep 2006 16:51:22 +1200 > > Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >> What is wrong with the gambas package that you should be able to install > >> from mepis? > >> > >> More comments below > >> > >> On Wed, 20 Sep 2006 00:41:16 -0400 > >> Alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> > >>> I have downloaded the Gambas program, now to decompress the files I > >>> think that I need to use tar - xvvjf -gambas-1.0.17.tar.bz2 > >>> /home/alan/gambas > >>> > >>> > >> no, more like > >> > >> tar xvjf gambas-1.0.17.tar.bz2 -C /home/alan/gambas > >> > >> but before you do that do > >> > >> mkdir /home/alan/gambas > >> > > I'd do a tar tjf gambas-1.0.17.tar.bz2 | more just to see where it's ging > > to end up. Almost gcertainly, it'll create a gambas-1.0.17 directory > > relative to where you currently are ( eg /home/alan? ), so the need to > > either create a directory, or redirect it are unnecessary. > > > > Personally, I build all my stuff under /usr/local/src, but that's just me. > > > > Steve > > > > > > > I created the new folder and ran tar xvjf gambas-1.0.17.tar.bz2 -C > /home/alan/gambas, > it seemed to be unpacking the files but there is nothing in the gambas > folder and so far havent found where they might be > > Alan
