# tar -jxvf compat-wireless-2010-06-26-p tar (child): compat-wireless-2010-06-26-p: Cannot open: No such file or directory tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now tar: Child returned status 2 tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now   please i need help
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But when I try to run it using  tar zxvf jre-8u151-linux-i586   I get tar (child): jre-8u151-linux-i586: Cannot open: No such file or directory tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now tar: Child returned status 2  What is wrong? The name and place matches prefectly.
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I opened up my flash drive this morning and all of my folders and files are normal, except for one folder and all its included files, which is the most important folder. The subfolders and files are renamed with bizarre characters and when I click to open them, a pop-up appears saying it's not accessible and the filename or directory name is incorrect. I don't want to reformat the flash drive because I'd lose all those files. Is there a way for me to restore it or something?  I would attach a screen shot, but apparently new users do not have that privilege. If you have a vague idea of what I'm talking about, let me know and I can email you screenshots so you can have a better understanding. Any help is greatly appreciated!
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I'm 24hrs into using Déjà Dup. All seems well apart from this error message:     Backup Finished      Could not back up the following files. Please make sure you are able   to open them.      /home/mjwittering/.cache/dconf      /home/mjwittering/.gvfs   What should I do, if anything?
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How can we extract specific files from a large tar.gz file? I found  but, when I tried the mentioned command there, I got the error:  $ tar --extract --file={test.tar.gz} {extract11} tar: {test.tar.gz}: Cannot open: No such file or directory tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now   How do I then extract a file from tar.gz?
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I've upgraded my LTS version of Ubuntu to Ubuntu 17.04 and from the day I've upgraded I've been struggling to get this thing stable. Sometimes my Wifi adapter doesn't work properly and sometimes I can't even copy things properly.  So I want to revert back to Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.  Is there any way to get this done?
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I mistakenly deleted  the /boot folder from my filesystem, rebooted, and all I get now is this:  error: file '/boot/grub/i368-pc/linux.mod' not found.  grub rescue&gt;
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I'm trying to compress a folder (/var/www/) to ~/www_backups/$time.tar where $time is the current date.  This is what I have:  cd /var/www &amp;&amp; sudo tar -czf ~/www_backups $time"   I am completely lost and I've been at this for hours now. Not sure if -czf is correct. I simply want to copy all of the content in /var/www into a $time.tar file, and I want to maintain the file permissions for all of the files. Can anyone help me out?
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I am having the same trouble as others getting my Atheros AR8131 Ethernet card recognised by Ubuntu 12.10 on my new HP Pavillion P7-1449 PC. I found the same question where the answer suggested the following:   Download Tarball compact-wireless-3.6.8-1-snpc Run  ./scripts/driver-select alx make sudo make install    The problem is when I run the make command I get the following:  make -C /lib/modules/3.5.0-21-generic/build M=/home/chris/Downloads/compat-wireless-3.6.8-1-snpc modules make: *** /lib/modules/3.5.0-21-generic/build: No such file or directory.  Stop. make: *** [modules] Error 2   Found a link to an alternative patch file (compat-wireless-2012-09-25-pc) but then I get the similar error:  make -C /lib/modules/3.5.0-21-generic/build M=/home/chris/Desktop/compat-wireless-2012-09-25-pc modules make: *** /lib/modules/3.5.0-21-generic/build: No such file or directory.  Stop. make: *** [modules] Error 2   Any help you could provide would be greatly appreciated.
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I don't know what the exact executable file extension is. Is it .deb or .tar.gz?
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Firefox fails to update due to corrupted download (deb)  Preparing to unpack .../firefox_32.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1_i386.deb ... Unpacking firefox (32.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1) over (31.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1) ... dpkg-deb (subprocess): decompressing archive member: lzma error:  compressed data is corrupt dpkg-deb: error: subprocess &lt;decompress&gt; returned error exit status 2 dpkg: error processing archive  /var/cache/apt/archives/firefox_32.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1_i386.deb (--unpack):  cannot copy extracted data for './usr/lib/firefox/libxul.so' to '/usr/lib/firefox/libxul.so.dpkg-new':   unexpected end of file or stream Please restart all running instances of firefox, or you will experience problems.
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When using tar I always include -f in the parameters but I have no idea why.  I looked up the man and it said;  -f, --file [HOSTNAME:]F  use archive file or device F (default "-", meaning stdin/stdout)   But to be honest I have no idea what that means.  Can anyone shed any light on it?
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I went to download a torrent today and Firefox asked me to choose an application to do so (although the bit torrent files normally go to transmission per the permissions I've set in Firefox).  I go to search for transmission and the search function just turns up music files with the letters 'tran' in them. I'm very frustrated.  I literally can't find the path to a file that's on my computer.
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I gzip directories very often at work. What I normally do is  tar -zcvf file.tar.gz /path/to/directory   Is there a way to specify the compression level here? I want to use the best compression possible even if it takes more time to compress.
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Has anyone had success recovering deleted files from an ext4 partition? I've tried various utilities, but none have worked yet. I'd be grateful if someone can share a success story!
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I'm trying to follow  in getting my wireless to work. However I'm incredibly new at the whole Linux thing, and there is a part in there that I really just don't understand:     Go to your main extracted folder (It should be the DPO_RT3290_LinuxSTA_V2600_20120508 folder) and type the following:     make     sudo make install  When he says "Go to", does he mean go to the file window? Wen I'm there and type "make" and hit Enter, it just opens up the file. How exactly am I supposed to make this thing work? What he is trying to say? I really just don't get it. Can somebody help me to understand this, so I can get my wireless working.
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I have two identical folders, with same structure and contents like this:  folder_1   hello.txt   subfolder     byebye.txt  folder_2   hello.txt   subfolder     byebye.txt   if I compress them as tar.xz formats I get two different archives with two different file sizes (just a few bytes, but they're not identical).  $ cd folder_1 &amp;&amp; tar -Jcf archive.tar.xz * $ cd folder_2 &amp;&amp; tar -Jcf archive.tar.xz *   I get:  folder_1/archive.tar.xz != folder_2/archive.tar.xz   and of course if I md5sum or sha1sum them I'll get two different hashes  And that's my problem... I need to check if a provided archive is identical to the one I have in my storage. I cannot use hashing nor just check file sizes.  Using zip instead of tar.xz works as zip always produces identical achives from identical files. Why is this happening? Is there a way to prevent it?
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I can't connect to  or  &mdash; the initial connection times out every time. I check this every week, and it worked fine last time, so it must be something pretty recent. (Further HTTPS deployment?)