[PLUG] Extracting Error Messages

Dick Steffens dick at dicksteffens.com
Wed Apr 3 16:41:29 UTC 2019


On 4/3/19 9:37 AM, Dick Steffens wrote:
> I have a theme in xfce on my laptop that doesn't exist on my desktop. 
> I'm trying to copy the theme from the laptop to the desktop. I 
> compressed the directory Numix, used sftp to copy the .tar.gz file, 
> and am trying to extract the directory. I get this error message:
>
> tar: Numix/gtk-3.0/assets: Cannot open: File exists
> tar: Numix/gtk-3.20/assets: Cannot open: File exists
> tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
>
> What's going on here?
>

Update:

I'd still like to know what's going on, but in spite of the error 
messages, the extraction worked, and I was able to copy the theme to 
/usr/share/themes, and the new theme works.


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Regards,

Dick Steffens




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