Title: Re: [Peterboro] terminal input
Again, just a stab in the dark because I've not tried to do what you
are trying to do but:
I personally don't use $HOME because I find it pretty much as quick to
type the path properly and feel much safer knowing I'm typing it myself
rather than relying on a variable.
If you are struggling to get it to work I would suggest this (slightly
longer winded) approach:
cd /home/richard (to change to your home directory - note the space
after cd)
ls (as in list to check whether you need a capital 'D'
for Desktop)
cd Desktop (or whatever it says)
ls (to see exactly what the extracted file is called (including usage
of upper and lower case letters)
sudo cp -r NAMEOFTHEME /usr/share/themes/ (note the space after
NAMEOFTHEME)
Terminal die hards will scoff but it's how I used to copy things around
when I first started to make sure I wasn't missing something obvious.
Fingers crossed that should copy it for you.
Stewart
P.S. It looks like the command you pasted below is correct except for a
space missing between slicknesS-black and /usr
richard rjsad wrote:
is
this what it should look like
sudo cp -r $HOME/desktop/slicknesS-black/usr/share/themes
sudo: unable to resolve host richard-laptop
this is the result, help
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 21:58:13 +0000
From: mjelectricalplumbi...@ntlworld.com
To: peterboro@mailman.lug.org.uk
Subject: Re: [Peterboro] terminal input
Hello
Richard,
Thursday, January 14,
2010, 6:32:49 PM, you wrote:
.. and a small typographical, remove / before - . then the first
one is correct. Notice $home is a representation to "/home/richard"
not literally "/home". So if i used $home in my terminal it would
represent "/home/anthony".
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i am stuggling
with trying to use this terminal i have d/loaded a theme from
gnome-look.org called slicknesS-black
extracted it to the desktop and then proceed to the teminal
this is a copy of my terminal,after the the first line failed i then
took a look at the file propities and found it was home
/richard/desktop in sted of home /desktop but this also failed
my ubuntu version is hardy heron any help with trying to understand
this would by much appreciated
rich...@richard-desktop:~$ sudo cp -r $HOME/desktop/slicknesS/-black
/usr/share/themes
[sudo] password for richard:
cp: cannot stat `/home/richard/desktop/slicknesS/-black': No such file
or directory
rich...@richard-desktop:~$ sudo cp -r
$HOME/richard/desktop/slicknesS/-black /usr/share/themes
cp: cannot stat `/home/richard/richard/desktop/slicknesS/-black': No
such file or directory
rich...@richard-desktop:~$
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