Hi there,
I was trying to run shotwell, went to import my pictures off my camera would not do it. I have come to the conclusion that my user does not have the right file permission for libusb, becuase root can run the program just fine. I am running archlinux, openbox 3.5. Now I recall in suse that their was some usb group. Can someone give directions as far as the best way to acomplish this? Would I use chmod and if so what would be the command? I also need to know where libusb is located. I am still building up my system and do not have a search program for my filesystem yet.

If you have a usb group add the user to it.

As for searching, I think you will have 'find' installed.

Try find / -name libusb & see what happens.

I tried "find / -name libusb" is says "bash: /: Is a directory"

I do not have a usb group as far as I know, I was curious if I could add a usb group my /etc/sudoers file. I know I had added one to give my users the ability to use sudo. I really do not want to have to change the persmissons for each user I would rather just added them to this group. This is a from scratch system, so I have VERY limited programs on it so far. Everything I do is done through config files.

Is there anyone that can help me here? All I want to do is be able to go into thunar hotplug my usb flash sticks, digital cameras and mount external usb hard drive, but it will not let me when I am logged in as my user. I have been following the wikis http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j...Wbdgvg&cad=rja,

Just tried on my system (Debian).

find /usr/lib -name libusb*

this works perfectly.

find /usr/lib -name libusb*

/usr/lib/libusbmuxd.so.1.0.4
/usr/lib/libusbmuxd.so.1
/usr/lib/libusb-0.1.so.4
/usr/lib/libusb-1.0.so.0


Also try at your prompt,

groups

cdrom floppy audio dip video plugdev netdev bluetooth scanner


Hope this helps you along.

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=129035
Thank you guys here is the real answer to my problem.