You can copy you tgz to /usr/local or in the directory where the tgz is execute<div><br></div><div>tar -C /usr/local -xzvf f<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(80, 0, 80); ">reesurfer-Linux-centos4-stable-pub-v4.3.1-full.tar.gz </span></div>

<div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#500050" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><br></span></font></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "></span><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#500050" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><br>

</span></font><div class="gmail_quote">2009/8/14 Ahmed, F, Me &lt;<a href="mailto:fahmed@sun.ac.za">fahmed@sun.ac.za</a>&gt; <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:fahmed@sun.ac.za">fahmed@sun.ac.za</a>&gt;</span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">











<div lang="EN-ZA" link="blue" vlink="purple">

<div>

<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">Ok, how do I get it in there?</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"> </span></p>

<div style="border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm">

<p><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt"> Pedro Paulo de Magalhães Oliveira Junior
[mailto:<a href="mailto:ppj@netfilter.com.br" target="_blank">ppj@netfilter.com.br</a>] <br>
<b>Sent:</b> 14 August 2009 15:01<br>
<b>To:</b> Ahmed, F, Me<br>
<b>Cc:</b> Freesurfer Mailing List<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Freesurfer] installation problems</span></p>

</div><div><div></div><div class="h5">

<p> </p>

<p style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">My guess is: your tgz is not in
/usr/local<br clear="all">
-----------------------------------------------------------<br>
Pedro Paulo de M. Oliveira Junior<br>
Diretor de Operações<br>
Netfilter &amp; SpeedComm Telecom<br>
--- Novo Netfilter 3.0 <a href="http://www.Netfilter.com.br" target="_blank">www.Netfilter.com.br</a><br>
--- New Netfilter Small Business<br>
<br>
<br>
</p>

<div>

<p>2009/8/14 Ahmed, F, Me &lt;<a href="mailto:fahmed@sun.ac.za" target="_blank">fahmed@sun.ac.za</a>&gt;
&lt;<a href="mailto:fahmed@sun.ac.za" target="_blank">fahmed@sun.ac.za</a>&gt;</p>

<div>

<div>

<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Hello,</span></p>

</div>

<div>

<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt"> </span></p>

</div>

<div>

<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt">I
am trying to reinstall FS, and I am having some difficulties. When I type in
the following command: </span></p>

</div>

<div>

<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt"> </span></p>

</div>

<div>

<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Courier New&quot;">cd
/usr/local</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt"></span></p>

</div>

<div>

<p>tar xzvf
freesurfer-Linux-&lt;platform&gt;-&lt;release&gt;-full.tar.gz<span style="font-size:10.0pt"></span></p>

</div>

<div>

<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt"> </span></p>

</div>

<div>

<p>(replacing the -&lt;platform&gt;-&lt;release&gt; with my
Linux variant which is freesurfer-Linux-centos4-stable-pub-v4.3.1)<span style="font-size:10.0pt"></span></p>

</div>

<div>

<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt"> </span></p>

</div>

<div>

<p>I get the following error: <span style="font-size:10.0pt"></span></p>

</div>

<div>

<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt"> </span></p>

</div>

<div>

<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt">tar:
freesurfer-Linux-centos4-stable-pub-v4.3.1-full.tar: Cannot open: No such file
or directory</span></p>

</div>

<div>

<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt">tar:
Error is not recoverable: exiting now</span></p>

</div>

<div>

<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt">tar:
Child returned status 2</span></p>

</div>

<div>

<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt">tar:
Error exit delayed from previous errors</span></p>

</div>

<div>

<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt"> </span></p>

</div>

<div>

<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Please
can you advise me on how to correct this? </span></p>

</div>

<div>

<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt"> </span></p>

</div>

<div>

<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Thank
you kindly</span></p>

</div>

<div>

<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Fatima
</span></p>

</div>

<div>

<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt"> </span></p>

</div>

</div>

<p><br>
_______________________________________________<br>
Freesurfer mailing list<br>
<a href="mailto:Freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu" target="_blank">Freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu</a><br>
<a href="https://mail.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/freesurfer" target="_blank">https://mail.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/freesurfer</a></p>

</div>

<p> </p>

</div></div></div>

</div>


</blockquote></div><br></div>