Another V26 Install Question

[Jonathan Charles Haynes]

I'm relatively new to Linux. I am installing V26 on 24.04 LTS a clean install.
According to the installation instrux:

Download the file from Sourceforge:
* ahrl_VER.tar.gz
* copy this to some convenient directory

I copied it to the cd/usr/local/bin directory, as that seems like what's being used below. I then open a terminal in the usr/local/bin directory and when I run "tar xzvf andy_v26beta1.tar.gz" and get the following:

tar (child): ahrl_andy_v26beta1.tar.gz: Cannot open: So such file or directory
tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

Am I understanding correctly that I am to replace VER above with the actual file name? Clearly I'm getting something fundamental wrong in my process. Many thanks for any tips you can give. I installed and used V25, but came here because I needed an updated version of a couple applications.

W0XO, Jonathan in Seattle

[Andy Stewart]

Hi Jonathan,

Please don't use beta1 - please grab the released version 26. There were
several bug fixes and some other things cleaned up for the release.

/usr/local/bin is a particularly bad place to put the tarball. I'll update the
instructions, but for now, put the downloaded tarball in /root. Then, cd
/usr/local per the instructions, and proceed.

Note that it is assumed that when you issue the tar instruction, you'll point
to the file via either a relative or absolute path. If you're getting "No such
file or directory", then you're probably not doing that.

Please let me know about your progress. Thank you for your report. This will
help me to craft better instructions.

73,

Andy

--
Andy Stewart (KB1OIQ)

[Peter Holmes]

Andy, I'm dumb-as-a stump. As Johnathan describes, thouth I've been doing linux 10 yrs now, but no confidence how Tar gz install works, and moving extracted file to a proper directory . I need more of a step-by-step instruction? I know it's obvious to an experienced person, but not me. Internet "examples" don't help. I did install xosview no problem. Thank you for your help, I am trying this on a fresh Linux Mint 22 Cinnamon install.

from your instructions:
"Download the file from Sourceforge:
* ahrl_VER.tar.gz
* copy this to some convenient directory

I did this, convenient directory is my Download folder? I finally figured out and extracted the file to my desktop.

"Install the AHRL files thus:
* sudo -i
* cd /usr/local
* tar xzvf ahrl_VER.tar.gz

I see the "cd" to change directory, Don't I need to move the extracted file to either /usr/local OR /usr/local/bin?

This is what I got:

[myusername@myusername] $ sudo -i
root@holmzieboy-NucBox-G3:~# cd /usr/local
root@holmzieboy-NucBox-G3:/usr/local# tar xzvf ahrl_VER.tar.gz
tar (child): ahrl_VER.tar.gz: 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
root@holmzieboy-NucBox-G3:/usr/local#

Here your next instruction. Again it is not obvious to me, but if I get the previous step right , this should work.

"Run the installation script::
* cd /usr/local/bin
* ./install_ahrl 2>&1 | tee out.txt

Thanks, Holmzie N2EXG

[Andy Stewart]

Please note that I just modified the GETTING_STARTED document to (I hope) better explain.

73,

Andy
KB1OIQ ..

[Peter Holmes]

THANKS, Andy. You're the best. I'll check it out now.

holmziep n2exg

[Peter Holmes]

Hi Andy! NEWS FLASH I kept getting the same error as before... and I finally found a typo in "GETTING STARTED" ...

[Install the AHRL files thus:
[ * sudo -i
[ * cd /usr/local
[ * tar xzvf /root/ahrl_VER.tar.gz (again, replacing VER with the actual version information)

The last line pointing to the downloaded file in /root should read:
[ * tar xzvf /root/andy_v26.tar.gz

That's the file we moved into /root, (not ahrl).

That being said, Whooh Baby! Fasten you seatbelt boys and girls. That install is equivalant to 470 pages of 12 point type! SUCCESS! The whole operation installed without a single hitch!

I copied it to the text editor, so now I can always go back and reload easily and play around if I want to.

Andy, This is absolutely amazing! We all thank you and appreciate your hard work. Hope I helped a little bit.

Best to you and all, happy hamming!

holmzie n2exg