I have had no help from my IT guy and he's disappeared. I am so frustrated with this LINUX it's not funny. Cannot open downloads . When I check on sites for help it just so much gobbledygook and tech jargon.

Does anyone have a simple solution to open a download without hours writing to system like...

deb http://.dl.sourceforge.net/project/jedit /deb jEdit - Browse Files at SourceForge.net /

Then, just run apt-get update, followed by apt-get install jedit.

WTF !...why can't this load automaticly or at least say what the hell you need to open it.

Furinsence....here's what I get trying to open a R129 2000yr > download from Mercedes.

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Archive: /home/dkv/Downloads/mw9791enu.exe
[/home/dkv/Downloads/mw9791enu.exe]
End-of-central-directory signature not found. Either this file is not
a zipfile, or it constitutes one disk of a multi-part archive. In the
latter case the central directory and zipfile comment will be found on
the last disk(s) of this archive.
zipinfo: cannot find zipfile directory in one of /home/dkv/Downloads/mw9791enu.exe or
/home/dkv/Downloads/mw9791enu.exe.zip, and cannot find /home/dkv/Downloads/mw9791enu.exe.ZIP, period.
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Even the bloody ZIP file won't extract and load !
Anyone with a SIMPLE solution apart from going back to Windows.?

Signed...Really p***** off in Oklahoma.


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That's not a .zip file, that's an .exe file. (i.e. a self-extracting .zip file that doesn't need unzip to extract). Won't work by default in ChromeOS or MacOS either.

Either:
(a) get someone to send you the files in a non-retarded format (regular .zip) or...
(b) I think you can use the built-in unzip utility to extract the file if you run it in Terminal and point it to the file's actual path

Open up a terminal window.
Type "chdir /home/dkv/Downloads " to change to the file's location.
Type "unzip mw9791enu.exe ".

No quote marks on either entry!

Many thanks...will try this this evening when my blood pressure drops from this mornings effort !

........just one more small question...what's a terminal window?...and where do i find it?

If you are at all familiar with Windows then it would be called a DOS window or something crap like that...

The terminal is a command line interface.

I've not hear of mint before but it looks like you've got GNOME - so go to the left hand corner of the screen where you can find your programs and type in "terminal" in the search box.

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Don't leave that there - I'll take it to bits!

Here's result:

dkv@Dell-laptop ~ $ chdir /home/dkv/Downloads
bash: syntax error near unexpected token `newline'
dkv@Dell-laptop ~ $ chdir /home/dkv/
No command 'chdir' found, did you mean:
Command 'hdir' from package 'hfsutils' (main)
Command 'cdir' from package 'cdtool' (universe)
chdir: command not found
dkv@Dell-laptop ~ $ Command 'hdir' from package 'hfsutils'
Command: command not found
dkv@Dell-laptop ~ $
dkv@Dell-laptop ~ $

Try:

cd /home/dkv/Downloads

Then hit the key. Sorry, brain fart there -- some variants of Linux have chdir, others cd, some accept both!

Hang about what are you guys up to?

Are you trying to unzip a windows .exe file?

If so why? What's the point? It is a Windows file it won't work on Linux. It is like asking someone who only speaks French to suddenly speak Martian...

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1992 W201 190E 1.8 171,000 km - Daily driver
1981 W123 300D ~ 100,000 miles / 160,000 km - project car stripped to the bone
1965 Land Rover Series 2a Station Wagon CIS recovery therapy!
1961 Volvo PV544 Bare metal rat rod-ish thing

I'm here to chat about cars and to help others - I'm not here "to always be right" like an internet warrior



Don't leave that there - I'll take it to bits!

A lot of zipped files have executable code to unzip them tacked on, so the extension is .exe and they can be run directly in Windows to unzip them. However, Linux unzip can also read the zipped part (in theory) and extract them.

Oh right - didn't know that. I've always just booted up my VM and gone on from there.

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1992 W201 190E 1.8 171,000 km - Daily driver
1981 W123 300D ~ 100,000 miles / 160,000 km - project car stripped to the bone
1965 Land Rover Series 2a Station Wagon CIS recovery therapy!
1961 Volvo PV544 Bare metal rat rod-ish thing

I'm here to chat about cars and to help others - I'm not here "to always be right" like an internet warrior



Don't leave that there - I'll take it to bits!

IT guy says it's easy...right. I'm gonna kill the b******d.
Here's what i get when i paste to Terminal:

dkv@Dell-laptop ~ $ /home/dkv/Downloads
bash: /home/dkv/Downloads: Is a directory
dkv@Dell-laptop ~ $


I'm trying to dnld Wine for Gnome.
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You forgot the "cd" part.

cd /home/dkv/Downloads

The OS really has to be dictated by the software you must use. I'm running Ubuntu at home and loving it, but all the home computer is used for is web, file storage, and watching TV and movies. Ubuntu is really great for all of this.

At work we use Autocad, and program PLCs, and XP is still doing this the best. we have a few Windows 7 Computers... but all of them have VMware XP systems installed to program the PLCs.

for 99% of people this is a true statment.

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Good joke, but even doing things "through a browser" doesn't imply platform independence. ActiveX, for one thing.