[Zope] Newbie, trying to follow the installation HOWTO...

[Chris McDonough]

OK, you're all tangled up in permissions here.

Try this:

gunzip Zope-2.1.3.src.tgz

If that works, you should have a file Zope-2.1.3.src.tar where the other
file "used to be"

then you can *try*:

tar xvf Zope-2.1.3.src.tar

You may get the same error message you did before.  This means that you
need to "get root" via "su", change the permissions on the "holding
directory" so your user can write to that directory.

An *excellent* book to pick up to know more about almost anything in
Linux/UNIX is Unix Power Tools by O'Reilly Books.  It's almost required
reading if you're just getting started with UNIX.  It also has an
excellent section on file permissions and how they work.

addyd@unk.edu wrote:
> 
> Thanks for the suggestions! Unfortunately,
> tar -zxvf Zope-2.1.3.src.tgz
> results in a million "Could not create directory. No such file or
> directory"
> 
> ???
> I must still be missing something very obvious...
> 
> Darren Addy
> University of Nebraska at Kearney
> 
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