I'm sorry to ask such a simple question but every time I think I figure something out or think I'm going somewhere get stopped dead in my tracks. My friend installed linux on my computer and then moved away immediately so I have no one to help me!
I downloaded the webcam program Cheese. I found through some tutorials that I have to copy the folder to the /opt/ folder and the only way to do that is through the terminal. I found this tutorial and still can't manage to copy the folder. These are the problems I run into:
1. I don't know where to open the terminal. I've tried opening it from the extracted Cheese folder in my downloads folder and from the /opt/ folder itself. It opens up but:
2. when I type the command sudo cp -r cheese /opt/ it will ask for modernnewspeak's password. When I try to type this in nothing happens, even though it JUST let me type in the command. I pressed "enter" thinking maybe it was hiding my password and I get the message "cannot stat 'cheese'. No such file or directory"
please tell me what I'm doing wrong! I tried to follow that tutorial and look through the FAQ here but I cannot figure this out. Thank you in advance!
I'm running Xubuntu and it was a challenge just getting Copy.com on there. (I installed the desktop app on both of my computers.) Now that I have it though, I don't really know how to use it.
I know this is kind of more a Copy.com question, but I don't know anything about Copy.com (besides having it--lol) and besides, I like you LQ guys.
So yeah, I installed the desktop app for Copy.com on both of my computers. I know that if I put something in the Copy folder that will be available to both computers.
But how Copy does the backing up I don't know.
When I change a file or folder do I have to plop that into the Copy folder every time or does Copy somehow update the file or folder in the Copy folder automatically? (It doesn't seem to.)
Okay, when I, say, take the Documents folder from one computer and plop it into the Copy folder that's that. Then I take the Documents folder from the other computer and plop that into the Copy folder, then all the files from both folders will be in the Copy folder (and the Copy cloud), right?
Now I just removed a couple of files from a folder and copied and pasted the folder into the Copy folder. But then when I looked at the Copy folder the files I'd deleted were still there. What's the process? How does it work?
I mean, how does this work as a way of backing things up AND organizing things? To me it seems like a decent way of throwing stuff into the Copy folder (and cloud), but how is that different than Google Drive? I mean, that's not really a backup, is it? It's like a flash drive in the cloud.
And when I combined the same folders (with the same titles anyway, but they each had different files within them) from the two computers I'd expected each folder on each computer to have all the same files that were cumulatively on both. Instead, they're the same. And the cumulative is only on the Copy folder.
I like the notion of just throwing the folders and files into the Copy folder. It's much quicker than Google Drive. But the backing up feature eludes me and the syncing feature makes me fearful that I'll lose data or that the files will become hopelessly less organized.
Thanks.
In Linux Mint, I have right clicked on a folder and selected
"Sharing Options" -> checked the boxes to "Allow others to create and delete files in this folder" and "Guest Access..."
When I access the shared folder on Windows 7 it asks for a password. If I type a password in, it works.
I would like to configure it to not ask for a password, but just open the share.
What I did in windows was create images of my drive and restore them.
in linux I am running
Code:
rsync -aAXv --exclude={"/home/*","/dev/*","/proc/*","/sys/*","/tmp/*","/run/*","/mnt/*","/media/*","/lost+found"} /* /path/to/backup/folder
and this creates a folder for me with all my files, and apparently saves meta data like permissions and paths...
Since I'm using arch and things break sometimes,I'm booted into a CLI with errors and cannot figure my way out since I'm a noob... would I be able to just delete my entire root and replace it with the rsync backup without a problem?
I have folder in Downloads directory to which I need to navigate I'm doing "cd Downloads" and after "cd Folder1 " but terminal says "No such file or directory" how can I access that folder?
I want to copy a folder and have the same permission as a existing folder , I tried cp -r -p may copy permission but it also copy everything includes sub-directory and files to new folder , would advise the way how to create a folder with copying all files to new created folder ? thanks
hi guys, im having terminal trouble.
i have a libre word file called lintest.odt in the Documents directory (folder). I want to move it to the Libre directory (folder).
Desktop Downloads Libre Pictures Templates
Documents home Music Public Videos
from the root directory i typed cd Documents and then pwd and I got
/home/francis/Documents
i then typed ls and i got lintest.odt
I then typed mv lintest Libre and it says
mv: cannot stat ‘lintest’: No such file or directory
what am I doing wrong?
when i try to see the contents of the lintest file with more lintest
I got ~/Documents$ more lintest.odt
PK
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--More--(0%)
and then it locks up the terminal.
im obviously doing something dreadfully wrong.
I am using a shell script named by test.sh, for example containing
Code:
address="$PWD"
echo "$address"
.
If I put it in folder temp1, and run test.sh, then it will give me the address of the current directory. But if I am now in folder temp2, and I want to run test.sh, I always need to copy test.sh to folder temp2, and then run it. Is there a way that I can run test.sh without copying it? I am not root user.
hi everybody
I'm trying to install glomosim in fedora linux
I was following the guide to glomosim steps and I faced a problem in this step:
<< Now, you have to change some environmental parameters according to the destination folder which you put the Parsec.
You can create a file called “.bashrc” inside the root or home folder (if it does not already exist), and include the
following:
export PCC_DIRECTORY=/home/parsec
PATH=$PATH:$PCC_DIRECTORY/bin
export PATH
*Your PCC_DIRECTORY should be set to the targeted destination folder which you created earlier.
Now, type:
$ pcc >>
every time I tried to type pcc
this message appears : bash: pcc: command not found
anybody help me with this please
Hi there,
I'm just starting to use Linux Mint 17 and practising commands. I have wallpapers.tar.gz in the Downloads folder and want to extract it to my Pictures folder.
I type tar -xzvf wallpapers.tar.gz -C /Pictures but it says no such directory. What am I doing wrong? Thanks for looking.
Okay. I got a newer computer to replace one of my two computers. A friend helped me install Xubuntu 14.10. So now I'm trying to get all the software I had on the old one.
In my writing, I write on a laptop. So I have LO 4.2.3.3 on it. So I put 4.2.3.3 on the other two computers, figuring it would be best to have the same versions on all three machines.
Now I have the folder for LO 4.2.3.3 (see screenshot) but don't know how to install it on the newer computer. I have GDebi Package Installer but that only wants to install files. (Unless I open the Debs folder and do 'select all files" and "open" them with the GDebi installer.)
I went to the LO site and they don't offer 4.2.3.3 any more.
Any ideas?