Cannot extract .tgz file

Installation
1

I downloaded “fluka-4-0.0.Linux-gfor7.tgz” to my Ubuntu terminal and gave the command

tar -xvf fluka-4-0.0.Linux-gfor7.tgz

and it failed with the following message:

tar: fluka-4.0.0Linux-gfor7.tgz: Cannot open: Permission denied
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

2

Try adding the term sudo to your command, i.e. sudo tar -xvf fluka-4-0.0.Linux-gfor7.tgz. This will give you the access required (just type your password after) and I believe there should be no other issue so long as you are an admin level user on the computer.

3

Dear Walter,

are you trying to extract the .tgz package in your home directory, or somewhere else?

Cheers,
David

4

Do the manual extraction by right click and extract then cd to extract folder and use make to install.