I have used a legal copy of Navigator 4.4 using windows.
I would now like to install it on my eee which has Ubuntu 10.04 installed on a 8Gb SD card.
The program will install on RPM-based distribution with Qt 3.2 or higher (Fedora2, SUSE 9.1, Mandrake 10)"

I am a novice using Linux but have worked with ubuntu 10.04. I have tried running Fedora 14 running from a live pendrive but and am having trouble installing from the supplied cd's.
I have an eee 2g surf and can run Fedora 14
I have a usb connected DVD rom player/recorder to run the disk base gps software to install


The vendor supplied the following text on the install cd -

1 you need root privelegies for install
su-
2 install application
./install.sh
3. install data
/opt/mapfactor/util/mpfcinstallData.sh
4. running application
mpfcNavigator

I can not get to the folder with install.sh - it always returns 'folder does not exist'
I have googled for a method of installing this app and tried all methods I can think of with no success.
Could anyone walk me through a step by step method of installing this app please

No, we can't give "step by step" directions. If you've paid for this from a vendor, that's what they're there for. Give their tech support a call.

Your problem, though, doesn't need "step by step" directions. If you're trying to run this from a CD/DVD drive, you have to be in that folder first. When you put the DVD in, does it pop up and tell you that it mounted? Go to your graphical file manager (like Dolphin, Gnome Commander, Konqueror, etc.), and look for the DVD. If you find it, you should see a path (something like "/media/NAVDVD" or something). In a terminal, type in "cd /media/NAVDVD", then do your SU and follow their instructions.

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Thanks for your response TBOne.
I am having trouble getting to to the folder containing ./install.sh.
Using system monitor gives me the information- Device /dev/sro and Directory /media/Navigator 4.4 but when i type in terminal
"cd /media/Navigator 4.4" it returns no such file or directory so I am stuck at this point.
Any help would be appreciated

Linux does not like filenames with spaces
Try "escaping" the space with the \ character, or using quotes:

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Thanks for the info on spaces in Linux. The method outlined to overcome the problem worked and I can now cd to the Navigator 4.4/linux folder on the cdrom drive.However it will not allow me to use 'su ~' it states access denied.This may be because I am using a live usb pen drive distro. I will try to resolve this problem now

"su ~"
that it a typo right
use
" su -" dash


also on fodora 14 when building, or using a OLD qt3/kde3 program you will need qt3 installed ( and maybe part of kd3 too)
fedora 14/15 is qt4 and kde4

some googling

Navigator 4.4 threads seam to be form 2005 ? 6 years old .
this is a tomtom ? right ?

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OK.

You are running ubuntu so you need to know ubuntu does not use the su - command in the conventional way (and please check your post, above, because su - and su ~ mean completely different things). Linux demands careful attention to detail. So you had better be careful. But the upside is that (unlike windows) if something goes wrong, it usually tells you why and then you can search on the error message at http://google.com/linux - THE current search engine for linux problems. It's not just ordinary google, it's for linux searches only (and cuts out the crap).

To run a single command as root use sudo command and then give your password.

To become root use sudo -i and then give your password.
Now you are root (and this will be shown by your terminal prompt: please look very carefully at it to see how it is now different).

Any commands you give in this terminal will now be executed as root, so no checks will be made, as it is assumed that you know what you are doing (because you are root).

When you are running as root, it is very easy to break your PC. Running as yourself, it's very difficult to break the system, but not your own files.

When you are done with the root terminal just type exit and then close the window.

Mini-tutorial ends.

Now:
Open a terminal

If you encounter errors, please post exactly what they are (with the preceding steps), preferably within code tags (Click Go Advanced click the # icon for code tags)

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Took previous advice
the gps prog is the most recent but is quite good with reasonable mapping.

This is the result of entering in the terminal

liveuser@localhost- $ su -
root@localhost - '/media/Navigator 4.4/linux'
bash : /media/Navigator 4.4/linux: is a directory
root@localhost -# ./install.sh
bash: ./install.sh: no such file or directory

The folder - linux does contain install.sh

I am using a 4 gb usb pen drive as a live boot in order to try this out - I realise that if I need to install permanently I will need more capacity.

So, errrrr, where is the cd (change directory) command in that line, exactly?

Did you read my previous post?

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sorry about missing the cd command.
I have now corrected that and the
terminal now shows I am at the folder 'linux' which contains install.sh


the terminal lines art

root@localhost linux#
./install.sh: Permission denied

did you inform the OS that the install.sh file can be executed
by default NO script can be executed , unless you set it

two ways to do this
or change the modifier
basic Linux/Unix 101
http://tldp.org/LDP/Bash-Beginners-G...tml/index.html
old but still good
http://rute.2038bug.com/rute.html.gz


also a bit of a warning
seeing as this is a binary install and NOT source build
DO NOT expect it o work on fedora 14 .14 is mostlikely WAY to new ( a very common problem for things wrote for rhel )
pay ATTENTION to all warnings when you try to run it for the first time
-- i am betting that there will be errors about the wrong version of some file --

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