where is my subdirectory
 

Hello All,

I think I've downloaded a Linux printer driver for my Oki B4250 from the Oki.co.uk website. It's only 8kb so the download was over in a flash.

I had to 'find files', using KDE, to locate the download. This was the response: 'ok4200pcl.ppd in subdirectory tmp/kde-jennifer/...'

I imagine that tmp means temporary; and jennifer is the user name of the computer I'm using. I haven't made any directories at all in my newly installed distribution (Libranet) so where the subdirectory could be I have no idea.

How do I find it, please? And what do I do with it when it's found?

Thanks,

did you look in your home directory? That is where the driver should save by default which would be located at /home/yourname Other than that go into the command line and type whereis drivername.


Hope this helps
Shane

Hi Shane,

This is where I show my newbieness! I opened a Konsole window and typed: '/home/jennifer' and was told that this was a directory. So I typed: 'ls -l /home/jennifer' and got a list of 4 things, none of which were the download.

I then typed in 'whereis ok4200pcl.ppd' and got the answer 'ok4200pcl'. Nothing else.

What does this mean, please?

Thanks,

If that's quoted correctly it should be somewhere in your home,
try
find ~ -iname "*ppd"

More likely (given the kde-jennifer) it's under
/tmp/kde-jennifer


Cheers,
Tink

Try looking in the /tmp directory. Are you using cups?

I get that jennifer is the host name, is that your name? the home directory will be /home/name where name is your username that you are currently logged in under


Shane

You're getting wrong... look at /tmp (if you're a KDE user,
that is) ... you'll find kde-<username> dirs there, not
kde-<hostname>.


Cheers,
Tink

Hi fellas,

Okay, Jennifer is a username - my wife's name.

I've looked in the /tmp directory. This holds 'kde-jennifer', 'ksocket- jennifer', 'mcop-jennifer' and 'ssh -XX5X2rPf'.

ls -l on /tmp/kde-jennifer gives 'konqueror-crash-51lRKa.l', 'ksycoca', and 'ksycocastamp'.

When I typed '~ -iname "*ppd"' I was told that it was a directory. ls -l shows my download isn't there.

I'm not using cups as I don't know how to. However, I've read my download instructions again and I have to copy the PPD to the '/usr/share/cups/model' directory. Can this be done even if we don't know where the download file is?

I take it that I would phrase the command like this: /jennifer/share/cups/ok4200pcl.ppd. Would this be right?

Thanks for your willingness to help

Got me wrong ... You're not supposed to type
~ -iname "*ppd"
but
find ~ -iname "*ppd"




Cheers,
Tink

Hi Tinkster,

Sorry about that. I've now typed in the correct command but am just returned to the terminal prompt. I start with 'jennifer@libranet:~$' then type in the request, but just go back to 'jennifer@libranet:~$'

Should I be adding anything else before hitting Enter key?

Cheers,

Nuh, that's fine, it's obviously not in the home-dir.

Try a / instead of the ~


Cheers,
Tink

Well, Tink, I don't know whether I'm coming or going! I substituted a / for the ~ and the screen immediately scrolled through what must be all the files in the computer. It went so fast that I couldn't read them.

The files seemed to be in alphabetical order but, unfortunately, I can't scroll backwards from the Windows files, the last of the list. So I don't know if my download is in there or not.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

In that case modify it to look like this :}

find / -iname "ok4200pcl.ppd"

Hi again,

Well, the screen still scrolls rapidly to the list end and I still can't scroll backwards. However, there is a line, now, at the bottom of the screen that says 'no such file or directory'. Very nice...

I'm starting to think that the download didn't download, or at least not properly. I think i ought to go back to the Oki uk website and try it again. I didn't see any method of saving the download to a particular file and, as I have an 'empty' Linux installation, there may be no file to download it to, anyway.

This make any sense?

I really appreciate your willingness to help.

You must be doing something silly/stupid, sorry.

find /
will tell find to start at the root-directory

-iname "ok4200pcl.ppd"
will only report files back that EXACTLY match
that name. There's no way you're getting screens
full of output unless you've downloaded the file a
gazillion times into varied locations.

A literal (copy & paste it into an xterm, preferably
one in which you're root to avoid ERROR messages
about "permission denied")
find / -iname "ok4200pcl.ppd"
will ONLY report back files of that name,
disregarding capitalisation.


Cheers,
Tink