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Confusing description in extracting the archive (linux) #76

Open NobbZ opened 5 years ago

NobbZ commented 5 years ago

The current instructions tell you to either use a context menu or the CLI to extract the downloaded archive:

  • If you’re using a graphic interface (e.g., GNOME or Unity on Ubuntu): go to your downloads directory, right click on the downloaded file and select Extract Here.
  • If you’re using the command line (use the right archive file name for your architecture): 
    tar -xf exercism-linux-64bit.tgz

On the following page then mv exercism ~/bin/exercism is done without specifying from where.

Often users run that command from the ~/Download folder, while some graphical systems will create an extra folder exercism during unpacking.

This often leads to users ending up having the exercism binary in ~/bin/exercism/exercism and therefore ~/bin/exercism will fail with "is a directory".

I suggest to either exactly specify where the user is expected to be when copying the binary to the designated location, or to strictly remove the references to the GUI and even download through wget/curl.

kytrinyx commented 5 years ago

I suggest to either exactly specify where the user is expected to be when copying the binary to the designated location, or to strictly remove the references to the GUI and even download through wget/curl.

Ah, I really like the wget/curl suggestion! That would simplify things pretty significantly.