installing minicom from desktop
 

This is a carryover from a different thread in hardware concerning geting a serial port modem conection. I am trying to install minicom from a pendrive as the computer I'm trying to connect has no conection I can't go through the normal route via synaptic or add/remove. There are other posts regarding an identicle problem but the advice always assumes a net connection. I now have an untared minicom on my desktop but can't install it.

You have to use:

This is getting embarrassing,tried the advice but just tells me "cannot access archive :No such file or directory.
I typed in sudo dpkg -i minicom-2.2.deb

In which case, the file doesn't exist. By untarred; what is the filename? With suffixes?

I sent the downloaded minicom from the pendrive to the desktop. It appeared there as
minicom-2.2tar.gz I right clicked on this and clicked on extract and it apeared as minicom-2.2 I have tried both files in the terminal with sudo dpkg -i filename.deb
As you can probably see I am really just a mousekiteer escapee from MS.

Did you try gdebi?

open a terminal
cd to the folder where minicom-2.2tar.gz is located
Post the output from the ls command.

Tried cd/username/desktop etc but still comes up with no such file or directory. Have right clicked folder on desktop and looked at "properties" which tells me there is a file at /home/username/desktop and its size is 703.6 kb.

open a terminal
type
please post the output of all the commands

fit is username and below is the reply I get.

bash: cd: /home/fit/desktop: No such file or directory

Try
note the capital "D"

opened terminal.
Shows fit@fit-PC:~$ typed in cd /home/Desktop
Shows fit@fit-PC:~/Desktops$

what is the output from ls
do you see the file?

typed in cd /home/fit/Desktop Is
result fit@fit-PC:~/Desktop$

type the following