Very Basic Help

Lyko · 03-17-2005, 02:45 AM

sudo bash ~/My Downloads/jre-1_5_0_01-linux-i586.bin
/home/bobby/My: /home/bobby/My: No such file or directory

That keeps coming up. I am not sure what to do.

nadroj · 03-17-2005, 02:48 AM

if you have spaces in arguments (the filename/path is an argument/parameter in this case), you must surround it all by double quotes "

Lyko · 03-17-2005, 02:50 AM

This showed up after the user agreement

Unpacking...
tail: cannot open `/home/bobby/My' for reading: No such file or directory
tail: cannot open `Downloads/jre-1_5_0_01-linux-i586.bin' for reading: No such file or directory
Checksumming...
1
The download file appears to be corrupted. Please refer
to the Troubleshooting section of the Installation
Instructions on the download page for more information.
Please do not attempt to install this archive file.
bobby@cpe-24-174-165-252:~ $

nadroj · 03-17-2005, 02:52 AM

what did you type in exactly?
you should have typed

Code:

sudo bash "~/My Downloads/jre-1_5_0_01-linux-i586.bin"

Lyko · 03-17-2005, 02:55 AM

When I typed

Code:

sudo bash "~/My Downloads/jre-1_5_0_01-linux-i586.bin"

I got

~/My Downloads/jre-1_5_0_01-linux-i586.bin: ~/My Downloads/jre-1_5_0_01-linux-i586.bin: No such file or directory

When I typed

Code:

sudo bash ~/"My Downloads/jre-1_5_0_01-linux-i586.bin"

I got the user agreement that went bad.

nadroj · 03-17-2005, 03:01 AM

i dont want to think and going to bed in min... rename your My Downloads folder to MyDownloads (remove the space). and try the command again, so the path will have no spaces, and you dont need the dbl quotes

Padma · 03-17-2005, 09:45 AM

Run the command with quotes as in your first example, but replace the "~" with "/home/<yourname>". When you run the command as "sudo", you are telling it to run as root, and I doubt root has the file "/root/My Downloads/jre-1_5_0_01-linux-i586.bin".

Edit: sudo might understand the "~" as being you, but from your error message, it is having trouble resolving it. Specifiying the complete directory path should still take care of it.

nadroj · 03-17-2005, 12:15 PM

ya, padma.. i dont think that since using sudo will replace /home/username with /root, ie i dont think it will look in roots home folder rather than the currently logged in users' folder. but ya, specifying the complete path might be good to try. i used sudo and ~ and it worked fine but i didnt have any spaces

Lyko · 03-17-2005, 05:52 PM

Ok, I moved the jre SH file to my desktop, to make things simpler. These are the error messages I got.

Code:

sudo bash "~/Desktop/jre-1_5_0_01-linux-i586.bin"Desktop
~/Desktop/jre-1_5_0_01-linux-i586.binDesktop: ~/Desktop/jre-1_5_0_01-linux-i586.binDesktop: No such file or directory
bobby@cpe-24-174-165-252:/usr/java $ ~/Desktop/jre-1_5_0_01-linux-i586.binDesktop: ~/Desktop/jre-1_5_0_01-linux-i586.binDesktop: No such file or directory
bash: /home/bobby/Desktop/jre-1_5_0_01-linux-i586.binDesktop:: No such file or directory

As well as...

Code:

sudo bash "/home/bobby/Desktop/jre-1_5_0_01-linux-i586.bin

And all that did was change the curstor to a ">"

Lyko · 03-17-2005, 07:31 PM

I did it, I did it, hot damn I did it! It finally is working. It took me 2 days to download a single file, but it is done! Thanks everyone, and especially nadroj, who has spent long nights explaining and helping. This ends this thread, but we made it to page 5, so good work.

TxLonghorn · 03-17-2005, 08:41 PM

As Jase said, you have to be root.
Open a terminal (console)
You will see that on your menu.
At the command prompt, enter
su
(root password) - (invisible)
cd /home/bobby/My Downloads
rpm -ivh 3ddesktop-x.y.z.tar.gz
Then follow the package instructions

TxLonghorn · 03-17-2005, 08:43 PM

Oops, I appologize for the previous post - I got lost in this long thread

nadroj · 03-17-2005, 08:53 PM

so all is well lyko?

gj and your welcome. things similar to this should be somewhat more comfortable from herein.
your post before last looked like you type the wrong path to the file so you got the error that the file/directory didnt exist, because it didnt.
note: i think with limewire in order to connect you have to share files.. at least mine wouldnt connect till i was sharing files.
good luck