I uninstalled xampp and tried to reinstall it but when trying to extract it to the /opt directory, I get the following error:

$ sudo tar -xzf xampp-linux-1.8.3-2-installer.run.tar.gz -C /opt
tar (child): xampp-linux-1.8.3-2-installer.run.tar.gz: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now.

Why does tar complaint that it cannot find the file while extracting the archive?

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Most likely the dir in the terminal (identified by pwd) does not contain the archive that you're trying to unpack. You need to cd /path_to_archive_dir/, and then execute the command there (tar -xzf xampp-linux-1.8.3-2-installer.run.tar.gz -C /opt).

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