Help with extracting Couchsurfer files after transfer to my Atv

[qwertyuiop7]

Struggling to load couchsurfer onto my new Apple TV.
Loaded with the latest 2.3 update.
Very latest Atvusb-creator and Boxee

First thing i need to let you know is i havn't got a clue about ssh, ftp, terminal windows, hacking etc all i am doing is following word for word instructions found on this forum, the Boxee forum and the wiki on AwkwardTV.
http://wiki.awkwardtv.org/wiki/Couchsurfer

All of which has worked very well until now

Contact made with the Atv ok , used Fugu to do the file transfers from my powerbook to the Atv users/frontrow directory OK and using Terminal to input the commands to navigate to the directory and to try and extract the
Plugin tarball.
Wiki says to use the following command to extract the file
tar -xvzpf couchsurfer-0.6-2.x-bin.tar.gz
See cut and paste from my terminal window below for error message i get

Last login: Thu Feb 19 23:24:44 on ttys000
Macintosh:~ philipsmith$ ssh frontrow@192.168.1.4
Welcome to the AppleTV (via atv-usbcreator)
frontrow@192.168.1.4's password:
-bash-2.05b$ cd /Users/frontrow/
-bash-2.05b$ tar -xvzpf couchsurfer-0.6-2.x-bin.tar.gz
tar (child): couchsurfer-0.6-2.x-bin.tar.gz: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
-bash-2.05b$


File name matches the file fugu has copied and location is correct

Any ideas what i am doing wrong


Thanks

Phil

 

[jpfisher]

If you downloaded the CS files via Safari, they won't work -- Safari automatically unzips the GZ file into a straight TAR. Download with Firefox, transfer those files to the ATV, and that should fix the problem.

Also, during the step where you move the extracted Couch Surfer to the Finder.app, you may get a permission denied error. Add "sudo" to the beginning of the command (the instructions are blocked here at work, but type sudo, space, and then paste the command off of the wiki page) -- it will prompt you for your password at this point, but it gets it working.

If you're expecting to use CS to watch Hulu... good luck. I got Flash working and everything last night, but performance was unacceptable on the ATV.... and there's no way to full screen the player with CouchSurfer -- the browser's implementation of a mouse won't pass a click onto the flash player.

 

[qwertyuiop7]

Thanks for the super fast response, Just tried it via Firefox and it works fine.
You were also correct about the next command it did need to be

sudo mv CouchSurfer.frappliance /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/PlugIns/

I am from the UK and can't access Hulu so i won't be a problem.
I just fancied the option of another way to browse the net whilst the wife is busy hogging the laptop

Thanks again

Phil