[SOLVED] how does one enter a command in terminal in Puppy?

Brant · 01-12-2016, 07:32 PM

I recently installed Puppy Slacko 6.3.0 and wanted to change the default format for Abiword.

I referred to http://helpdeskgeek.com/how-to/chang...ord-processor/
but ran into difficulties when I realized Puppy does not use the sudo command, and that I do not have a password.

I tried exec /usr/share/abiword-3.0/system.profile
but received Permission denied.

Any suggestions?

frankbell · 01-12-2016, 08:25 PM

In a terminal, run the command "whoami." That should tell you what user you are running as (I think it may be root).

Also, I don't think system.profile is an executable file; I suspect it's a text file. Running this command should tell you what type of file it is:

Code:

file /usr/share/abiword-3.0/system.profile

This may help: http://www.abisource.com/support/faq/

colorpurple21859 · 01-12-2016, 09:00 PM

what the link is telling you to do is edit the file and because puppy is already root this will work

Code:

nano /usr/share/abiword-3.0/system.profile

to edit the file. nano is a command line text editor.

jamison20000e · 01-12-2016, 09:05 PM

Also see: http://puppylinux.org/wikka/spot

Brant · 01-13-2016, 08:05 PM

Thanks, everyonethat worked very neatly, and gave me a bit of practice with nano as a bonus!