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No, that command assumes that you are in the folder ~ or /home/<name>/ and that a folder exists there called Downloads/ and that when you downloaded the file that it went into Downloads/ please replace Downloads and ~/Downloads/ with the location that you downloaded the file to.

 

no such file or directorie

 

csextra when you downloaded the file from java.com... where did you save it to?

 

to the desktop

 

Okay, well I'm just going on a hunch here.

cd ~/Desktop && tar xvzf ~/Desktop/jre-7u21-linux-i586.tar.gz

 

grrr... no such file or directory

 

Then maybe this:
cd ~ && tar xvzf ~/jre-7u21-linux-i586.tar.gz

 

tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

 

Debian/Linux are case sensitive, to the filename must be exactly as it is shown.

 

hmm. so what i need to do now?

 

Did you try the command again ensuring the filename was typed in the proper case? And if so did it succeed?

 

no such file or directory

 

Okay, I need to know the exact path to this file. I can't be anymore help unless you can give me that.

 

you need to know this?

 

Well that's a good start, click "Extract to" and extract it to either /home/<yourname>/ or to /home/<yourname>/Desktop and remember if ANY letters are capital and which ones.

 

im extracted in Desktop

 

Step 1 and 2 should now be complete. Now in a terminal, please continue with step 3. I understand the spaces are probably hard to see on here, but maybe you're cutting and pasting anyway.
sudo mkdir -p -v /opt/java/32
cd Downloads && tar xvzf ~/Downloads/jre-7u21-linux-i586.tar.gz
sudo mv -v ~/Desktop/jre1.7.0_21 /opt/java/32
sudo update-alternatives --install "/usr/bin/java" "java" "/opt/java/32/jre1.7.0_21/bin/java" 1
sudo update-alternatives --set java /opt/java/32/jre1.7.0_21/bin/java

 

3 step (no such file or directory) like and 2 step...

Have you got an skype it was more easyer to chat.

EDIT by Moderator: merged posts, please use the edit button instead of double posting.

 

Well, I don't know where your Desktop folder is located, it would normally be ~/Desktop but for all I know it's /Desktop or in some other place. I guess I should have asked which window manager you're using so I could at least guess at what your file system structure might be. If you know the exact path to your deskop folder in the terminal that's what you need to be using.

csextra
I'm not at home right now and can't use skype here, or else I would have already recommended that to avoid wasting all this server space. Honestly I thought it was going to go a lot smoother than this.

EDIT by Moderator: merged posts, please use the edit button instead of double posting.

 

Hm im going Zygis/Desktop

 

Look, I can skype with you in an hour. My skype name is the same as my username on here. Tag an op or something and maybe they'll delete this mess.

 

i add in skype... accept