unknown file location

[mikeylikesitz]

Ive d/l a few things(i think) Gaim for example. I try to d/l the tar.gz for it and the browser window acts like its d/l but it doesn't tell me where it put it. I cd to /tmp thinking its in there but its not. When the d/l finishes i get a message saying "gunzip: /tmp/MO3A51163E10F0409.tar: not in gzip format". What is that and what does it mean?? and where did it put the file. I never got a chance to choose http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/confused.gif

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[mdwatts]

When I download anything in Linux using Netscape, I right-click on the link, select save-as and a windows pops up that I can change the location of where to download to.

For your error, gunzip only works on .zip and tar.gz, not .tar. No idea why that is happening though.

Try downloading as I suggested. I created a download directory to store the files.

cd /
mkdir download

[mikeylikesitz]

ahh, thanks, i got a download dir. thats where i want it to go in the frist place. thanks for the info http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/biggrin.gif

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