General :: How To Install Firefox After Extracting ARC File
May 24, 2010
I am really trying to learn the heart of linux, and not rely on gui's and package managers for everything. I am trying to download firefox 3.6. I downloaded the arc file, and extracted it to my home folder, but I don't know what to do next. I am also clueless as to how to install tar or tar.gz files, and tell them where to go, etc. Firefox is the priority question here. I am sure I can get it from the package manager, but I want to learn to do it with the arc files, and tar files, etc, and not rely on the gui for everything like in Windows. I am a Linux newbie, converting to Linux for hobby and educational purposes, but I have no direction, or no sense of where to go, or how to learn. I am running Kubuntu 10.04 LTS.
ish but I did manage to right-click the Firefox tar.bz2 file and choose to 'extract here'...now I've got the new extracted folder on the desktop but I'm lost as to how to run the installation of the 3.7 alpha 4 release.
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I have a remote Debian 5 machine on which I'm trying to extract a tar-file (Django 1.2.1, but that's unimportant). The first 1300 or so files extracts just fine (of about 2800 in total), after which errors liketar: Django-1.2.1/tests/urls.py: Cannot open: No such file or directoryshows up for the rest of the files, finally ending up with atar: Error exit delayed from previous errorsI use the commandtar xzvf Django-1.2.1.tar.gzI've also tried with sudo (but I'm extracting in my home directory, which I should obviusly have permissions to use without). I've tried gunzipping first (runs flawlessly) and then running tar xvf, but to no avail. I've fetched the file using wget:
I have a bunch of tar files in a folder with the name in 'file_name.MMDDYYYY.HH.mm.SS.tar' format. I need to write a shell script that picks latest and greatest of the above tar files and extracts it to a particular folder
There are some log files that I wish to get some information from (Apache Access Log) but it is huge! All I need as of right now is any information from date and time A to date and time B. What commands can I use to extract this information from the access_log and put it into another file with just that information? I created a file called "access_info" by doing Code: touch access_info but I was not sure where to go from there.
I am trying to create a self extracting file for Windows from Ubuntu 10.04 using 7zip.
I tried these commands:
7zr -sfx7z.sfx a output.exe *.txt 7zr -sfx/usr/local/etc/7z.sfx a output.exe *.txt
Both show this error:
Error: can't find specified sfx module
System error: E_FAIL
I have all the .sfx modules on /home/username/.sfx/ because I use them previously with "rar" and it worked fine, but it's not working for 7zip. I also copied 7z.sfx to /usr/local/etc/ to test the second command like shown here but I get the same error.
My OS is Fedora 14 - 64bit. I want to extract and install this file "LEXMARK-INKJET-LEGACY-wJRE-1.0-1.x86_64.rpm.sh.tar.gz". At the moment this is in the download box in the top left corner of my monitor.
I have tried several ways, but all I get is Command Line Output. Gzip:stdin: unexpected end of file./bin/gtar: unexpcted EOF archive. /bin/gtar: error is not recoverable: exiting now.
I have this file that is in ZIP. I can open it and browse the files inside via archive manager. But extracting it gives me an error. When using GUI it says that 'ERROR while extracting files' and in command line when I command: unzip -q myfile.zip
It display this errors
file #2109: bad zipfile offset (local header sig): -2122072556 file #2110: bad zipfile offset (local header sig): -2121511988 file #2111: bad zipfile offset (local header sig): -2121511886 file #2112: bad zipfile offset (local header sig): -2121375823 file #2113: bad zipfile offset (local header sig): -2121310073 file #2114: bad zipfile offset (local header sig): -2121282474 file #2115: bad zipfile offset (local header sig): -2121107851 file #2116: bad zipfile offset (local header sig): -2121015601 file #2117: bad zipfile offset (local header sig): -2120957317 file #2118: bad zipfile offset (local header sig): -2120906286 file #2119: bad zipfile offset (local header sig): -2120906193
I'm trying to extract a file from a zipped archive, and receive an error message saying "caution: filename not matched:".
I suspect the route cause of this is that the original filename contained accented characters (which now show as question marks in the zipped filename). I've tried renaming the file in the archive, but get the same error.
I am trying to extract data from the xml file using c coding. here is the sample code. this code gets compiled with errorfree. but the call back functions start and end are not invoked. coding:
I'm trying to extract the audio from an mp4 video file and convert it to mp3 using ffmpeg. The problem is that the resulting audio file is only 3m2s long, whereas the video file is 8m15s long. Anyone know why the audio file is being truncated? Am I doing something wrong? Apart from being truncated the mp3 file plays perfectly. Here's what ffmpeg has to say about the video file:
########## some text text also includes empty lines ########## some more text ##########
Basically all sections are separated by 10 hashes and I need to somehow only print all lines in the last section (the "some more text" part in the example above"). I tried all kind of things with sed and awk but I didn't find any way to identify the last "section".
I use Lenny, and was trying to mount a .iso image, supposedly a cd imagem.
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This is what I get from dmesg | tail:
debian:/home/zac/cscd# dmesg | tail [ 1811.505199] floppy0: disk absent or changed during operation [ 1811.505207] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
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I did a little research on the web and it seems that this file is not really a cd image, but simply data in a .img file. What do you think of that?
debian:/home/zac/cscd# file cscd3.iso cscd3.iso: data
Some people recommend to extract the data via the dd command, but it didn't seem very safe for me to do that!
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is it possible to extract the data into a directory (instead of a device) using dd? This file is supposed to be a software. I wanted to run it on wine by keeping it mounted on a mount point in my file system. Does it make any sense to try to do this if the file simply isn't a cd image?
I am trying to extract just a few files/folders from a Time Machine backup, but can't seem to find them. The drive is automatically mounted in Ubuntu, and am able to access after enabling view hidden files, the HFS+ Private Data Directory. But that is a jumbled array of thousands of numbered folders, with each taking a fair amount of time to open on this aging Dell running 10.10.
I've tried running the standard Places - Search for Documents, with 'Show hidden and backup files' enabled, but that won't pull up any of the search times I'm going for (and seemingly won't find anything at all on the drive). So, is there any way to decipher the directory tree so as to be able to access this data from Ubuntu? Or perhaps a file embedded somewhere in there that lists out the original structure, so that I can use it as an index to see what number correlates to what originally named folder?
I have downloaded the firefox 3.7a which was a tar.bz2 file. After downloading extracted the tar.bz2 into a download folder. Now I can figure out to do from there. How can update using this firefox update. All the zypper/yast ect. only use my repositories that dont have 3.7a and I can not figure out what else to do. Google searches all just say use package manager. But how do you use a package manager for a file on your hard drive?
I have a large number of paper sheets to scan. Instead of an autofeed or flatbed scanner, I'd like to use my photo camera. After a while, it occurred to me that instead of making a photo for each page, I could install the camera on a tripod, set it to record video and then extract the images from the video.
That way, I'd just have to handle the papers: Pick one, place it in front of the camera, wait a moment, replace it. Is there a Linux software to get all images without motion out of a movie? Kind of a non-motion-detection.
Code: $ffmpeg -i /data/sumeet/video/hollywood/you don't know jack/You.Dont.Know.Jack.2010.DVDRipwww.theevolution.org_by_digoloko.rmvb FFmpeg version git-1dbd813, Copyright (c) 2000-2010 the FFmpeg developers built on Oct 1 2010 19:28:12 with gcc 4.4.3
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At least one output file must be specified Actually the video has embedded subtitles. I thing that is stream 0.2 in real media container. How can i pull that data out ?
I have a large number of zip-archives which I would like to extract and then delete, keeping only the extracted files. The files are located in a number of directories and I issued the following command, hoping that it would solve my problem (which it didn't):
Code:find . -name "*.zip" -execdir unzip '{}' ; -deleteWhat happened was that find continued to extract the files as intended, but then it deletednot only the zip-archives but also the newly extracted files.it only affected a portion of the files that I had already backed up.I don't have enough space on my hard drive to extract all the files without simultaneously removing any data and I don't have the energy to go through all the directories one by one manually. Surely there must be a better way. Is there a way to fix the code snippet above so that it works as I intended or is there a better way of doing this?
i am working on a project that requires updation after every 10 days that is after 10 days , i have to apply a new release. every time i need to copy all things from one path and paste it to different locations that is a manual work, i want to create a self extractor, in which i have to give only path, that is the path where i need to paste the files.
Someone has sent me a zip file containing some fonts. I extracted it using unzip under Linux, and there are empty files in the top level of the archive, and some files similarly named but beginning with ._ in a __MACOSX subdirectory.
I understand that the __MACOSX contents should be metadata, and normally I'd delete it. In this case, however, all of the data seems to be in there! Is there a tool that I can use to reassemble the original data?
I wish to set up a backup and recovery procedure for a linux machine. However, when I extract the archive, the system works fine until the next time I want to boot up. Then the system behaves as if it does not know what to do after running bios.Am I missing something simple? Complex?I am trying to isolate the error now, but here is the error recreation procedure so far.Error recreation procedure:
-install Fedora 15 from live CD -power down -disconnect the usb DVD drive
I would appreciate help with how to extract the date and time from at command jobs. From what I can tell, the date and time is embedded in the file name (/var/spool/atjobs).I'd be using this information in a (bash) shell script.
I'd like to extract a single column from 5 different files and put them gether in an output file. I saw a similar question for 2 input files, and the line of code workd very well, the code is:awk 'NR==FNR{a[NR]=$2; next} {print a[FNR], $2}' file1 file2I added the file3, file4 and file5 at the end, but it doesn't work. Does anyone know what do I have to do?
I recently (and accidentally) wiped a hard-drive which should NOT have been formatted. PhotoRec was able to recover some of the most important files from the disk.
Part of those files include a large music collection of flac files. I've placed these in a folder named 'FLAC' that looks like this:
[Start of FLAC Folder] f11655088.flac f11698672.flac ... (around 2,000 files total) f291142600.flac [End of FLAC Folder]
I'm running a livecd to rescue this data. I have access to a standard terminal in Ubuntu 10.10. I've noticed that the music player in linux will display the song title when I open any of these songs.
My goal is to automatically extract the song title from these files and update their names from f12313512.flac to 'Libera - Rebirth.flac'
