extracting .exe files

**soulresonence** · June 20th, 2012

Thanks,
When I enter the second line of command get

Error:
ther is no such archive

Does the driver need to be in a specific location?

**kanikilu** · June 20th, 2012

Originally Posted by soulresonence

Thanks,
When I enter the second line of command get

Error:
ther is no such archive

Does the driver need to be in a specific location?

Were you in the same directory as the .exe file, and did you use the correct file name? Can you copy & paste the terminal output here?

**Mark Phelps** · June 21st, 2012

Sorry, but some .exe files are executables, not self-extracting archives. HP is infamous for doing just that with recent printer drivers.

**soulresonence** · June 22nd, 2012

sorry for my late response, pasted my terminal output here after entering the commands you gave

gareth@gareth-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get install p7zip-rar
[sudo] password for gareth:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
p7zip-rar is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 15 not upgraded.
gareth@gareth-laptop:~$ 7z e Wireless_15.1.1_dx32.exe

7-Zip 9.04 beta Copyright (c) 1999-2009 Igor Pavlov 2009-05-30
p7zip Version 9.04 (locale=en_GB.utf8,Utf16=on,HugeFiles=on,2 CPUs)

Error:
there is no such archive
gareth@gareth-laptop:~$

I'm the only user on this laptop and the driver is on the dektop. Will I have to sort out permissions, I've been reading about it and and not quite there with that yet!

**kanikilu** · June 22nd, 2012

Originally Posted by soulresonence

Error:
there is no such archive
gareth@gareth-laptop:~$

I'm the only user on this laptop and the driver is on the dektop. Will I have to sort out permissions, I've been reading about it and and not quite there with that yet!

If the driver is on your desktop, than you need to change to that directory first. It also doesn't hurt to create a temp "container" directory to extract to. Open a terminal, and then do:

Code:

cd ~/Desktop
mkdir driver/
mv Wireless_15.1.1_dx32.exe driver/
cd driver/
7z e Wireless_15.1.1_dx32.exe

Although, out of curiosity, I googled the driver name you have and downloaded it. When I tried to extract it with 7zip, it didn't give errors, but I also don't see any usable files, like an .inf file, sorry.