Tom: Thanks, that did it. I’m going to learn Linux even if it kills me.

Tom: thanks for the help yesterday. I looked up the TAR command to understand what is being done. I added the “V” option foggy@Fog-Server:/opt$ sudo tar xvz fog_0.32.tar
to see the unpacking process but when i execute, the prompt just sits there. Any guidance would be appreciated.

Guyz: A NOOB question. I am trying to unpack the FOG tar ball in the /OPT directory. The locate command doesn’t show the tar ball in the OPT directory but the LS command does. Thought it might be a permission issue so became ROOT but still no go. I’m confused.
/home/foggy/Downloads/fog_0.32.tar.gz
foggy@Fog-Server:~$ sudo cp /home/foggy/Downloads/fog_0.32.tar.gz /opt
[sudo] password for foggy:
foggy@Fog-Server:~$ cd /opt
foggy@Fog-Server:/opt$ ls
fog_0.32.tar.gz
foggy@Fog-Server:/opt$ sudo apt-get install fog_0.32.tar.gz
[sudo] password for foggy:
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
E: Unable to locate package fog_0.32.tar.gz
E: Couldn’t find any package by regex ‘fog_0.32.tar.gz’
foggy@Fog-Server:/opt$
foggy@Fog-Server:/opt$ ls -l
total 45492
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 46579295 Oct 31 14:55 fog_0.32.tar.gz
foggy@Fog-Server:/opt$ sudo apt-get install fog_0.32.tar.gz
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
E: Unable to locate package fog_0.32.tar.gz
E: Couldn’t find any package by regex ‘fog_0.32.tar.gz’
foggy@Fog-Server:/opt$ sudo su
root@Fog-Server:/opt# apt-get install fog_0.32.tar.gz
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
E: Unable to locate package fog_0.32.tar.gz
E: Couldn’t find any package by regex ‘fog_0.32.tar.gz’
root@Fog-Server:/opt# ls
fog_0.32.tar.gz
root@Fog-Server:/opt# locate fog_0.32.tar.gz
/home/foggy/.local/share/Trash/files/Link to fog_0.32.tar.gz
/home/foggy/.local/share/Trash/info/Link to fog_0.32.tar.gz.trashinfo
/home/foggy/Downloads/fog_0.32.tar.gz
root@Fog-Server:/opt# cd ./
root@Fog-Server:/opt# locate fog_0.32.tar.gz
/home/foggy/.local/share/Trash/files/Link to fog_0.32.tar.gz
/home/foggy/.local/share/Trash/info/Link to fog_0.32.tar.gz.trashinfo
/home/foggy/Downloads/fog_0.32.tar.gz
root@Fog-Server:/opt# mv /home/foggy/Downloads/fog_0.32.tar.gz /opt
root@Fog-Server:/opt# locate fog_0.32.tar.gzz
root@Fog-Server:/opt# locate fog_0.32.tar.gz
/home/foggy/.local/share/Trash/files/Link to fog_0.32.tar.gz
/home/foggy/.local/share/Trash/info/Link to fog_0.32.tar.gz.trashinfo
/home/foggy/Downloads/fog_0.32.tar.gz
root@Fog-Server:/opt# ls
fog_0.32.tar.gz
root@Fog-Server:/opt# apt-get install fog_0.32.tar.gz
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
E: Unable to locate package fog_0.32.tar.gz
E: Couldn’t find any package by regex ‘fog_0.32.tar.gz’
root@Fog-Server:/opt#