Oh dear, the fault is mine. I made an incorrect assumption. I assumed that the ${HOME}/.themes directory already existed. The symptoms you are getting point to this case.
Bash is telling you that ".themes" is not a directory. This probably means that the command "mv Gleam-0.1.tar.gz ${HOME}/.themes" which you trustingly did, merely renamed "Gleam-0.1.tar.gz" to the file called ".themes", rather than moving it into the directory called ".themes", because said directory did not exist.
To extricate yourself from this situation (yes, it is possible, yay!) do the following:
At this point, you can double-check that the Gleam-0.1.tar.gz file is what we think it is, by using the "file" command:
file Gleam-0.1.tar.gz
This tells you what type of file it is. It should say something like "Gleam-0.1.tar.gz: gzip compressed data, from Unix, last modified: Tue May 15 08:06:22 2012" (probably with a different date)
If that worked, you can procede as with the original commands.
mv Gleam-0.1.tar.gz ${HOME}/.themes cd ${HOME}/.themes tar xzvf Gleam-0.1.tar.gz
Just what you wanted, to become my personal Linux troubleshooter, huh?
You, my dear, are no trouble to troubleshoot for. You are willing to try, and you explain clearly exactly what you did and what error messages you got. That makes things so much easier. \o/
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Bash is telling you that ".themes" is not a directory.
This probably means that the command "mv Gleam-0.1.tar.gz ${HOME}/.themes" which you trustingly did, merely renamed "Gleam-0.1.tar.gz" to the file called ".themes", rather than moving it into the directory called ".themes", because said directory did not exist.
To extricate yourself from this situation (yes, it is possible, yay!) do the following:
mv ${HOME}/.themes Gleam-0.1.tar.gz
mkdir ${HOME}/.themes
At this point, you can double-check that the Gleam-0.1.tar.gz file is what we think it is, by using the "file" command:
file Gleam-0.1.tar.gz
This tells you what type of file it is. It should say something like "Gleam-0.1.tar.gz: gzip compressed data, from Unix, last modified: Tue May 15 08:06:22 2012" (probably with a different date)
If that worked, you can procede as with the original commands.
mv Gleam-0.1.tar.gz ${HOME}/.themes
cd ${HOME}/.themes
tar xzvf Gleam-0.1.tar.gz
Just what you wanted, to become my personal Linux troubleshooter, huh?
You, my dear, are no trouble to troubleshoot for. You are willing to try, and you explain clearly exactly what you did and what error messages you got. That makes things so much easier. \o/
All this trouble to prettify things.
Prettifying is a good goal!