What he meant was that there may be zip data inside. Rename the file yo something.zip and see if it opens in your Archive viewer. On 4 Feb 2013 12:36, "Rowan Berkeley" <rowan.berke...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 04/02/13 12:07, Colin Law wrote: > >> On 4 February 2013 12:01, Rowan Berkeley <rowan.berke...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> On 04/02/13 11:46, Colin Law wrote: >>> >>>> On 4 February 2013 11:40, Rowan Berkeley <rowan.berke...@gmail.com> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Unfortunately, it seems that you can >>>>> have a package sitting in plain view on the desktop but the terminal >>>>> will >>>>> keep telling you "no such file or package." This rather stops me in my >>>>> tracks. >>>>> >>>> Show us the command you are typing and the error (and tell us which >>>> folder you are in in the terminal). Preferably copy/paste it out of >>>> the terminal (Ctrl+Shift+C to copy from terminal). >>>> >>>> Colin >>>> >>>> Aha - the answer was contained in the question. it couldn't find it on >>> the >>> desktop, but it found it after I moved it to the home folder. >>> >> Either you should have done >> cd Desktop >> or in the command specified Desktop/filename >> >> Do you know about name completion in the terminal? If you start >> typing a filename and then hit tab it will try and complete the >> filename for you. If it does not complete then either there are none >> matching or severeal, hit tab again and it will show you all matching >> files (if there are any). So to put the name of a file on the desktop >> in a command type >> the_command Des<tab><first chars of filename><tab> >> >> Colin >> > Ahem. OK. But anyway, to return to my original point and Alan's response > to it, there's nothing to unzip. It's just a single, integrated MS-DOS > executable, very nice for Windows people but useless for Ubuntu people > unless they decide to install WINE, which is not recommended just for one > pesky Windows program. So, the situation is, Hewlett Packard's own solution > for this driver problem not only is useless to me, but it doesn't even tell > me what the standard name of the driver in the package is, so that I can > find it elsewhere. I think I know what it is, from people at Ubuntu Forums, > but when I follow the standard procedure for installing the one they > recommend, I get stuck somehow. And indeed it's a waste of other mail list > readers' time me going on about this here, when I could go to Ubuntu Forums > and ask for help there, so I shall do that. Thanks anyway to all who > tried... > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/**mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk<https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk> > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/**UKTeam/ <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/> >
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