Trying to change file permissions for World of warcraft so i can play under debian.
I know i am supposed to use chmod, but nowhere i have read really explains HOW you type the command for a simple file. so far from what i have gathered you type "chmod" the numerical value, and then the file or folder. yet it says the folder does not exist. please help
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Can you explain what you mean, and show us what you are doing exactly?
Here are two examples: Code:
chmod +x file.sh |
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Ok i typed in chmod 666 "world of warcraft" said no such file or directory. so i go thru multiple CD commands and get into my external hard drive. I try the chmod 666 "World of Warcraft" again...and again am treated to the no such file or directory error.
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Ok, what I posted before is just an EXAMPLE. I guess we are going to have fun then with this..... I take it you are following a guide. Can you please give me the link of the guide you are following?
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ls shows the folder is there. and this is the one i tried to follow....but again not very helpful. http://catcode.com/teachmod/
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chmod 666 "world of warcraft"
I think it should be without quotes. Secondly when you type worl press TAB and let the bash complete it. |
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And for files and folders within Linux with space, they need to be delimited with the backslash (\). |
And do me a favor - Please stick to one thread. I reported the other thread you just created about the same problem. One problem = One thread. Thanks for understanding,
Josh |
the other thread was because i thought you could change the file permissions via the properties button. I just found out a few hours ago i have to use chmod and forgot to get rid of the other thread. meant to mark it as solved. this one was for chmod. and im not using a guide to install wow. i read the error message it gave me. googled how to change the file permissions, found i needed to use chmod. and then brick walled. and as for the slash, i found a post on here (cuz i couldn's get to my external which is called My Book) that said for files and folders w spaces you enclose them in quotation marks. and it worked...i can get as far as reaching the WoW and External folders..but thats as far as i can get
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Ok, post the command you are using that is failing.
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ok the first image is the error message i get and the second is the command i used...and am still getting the error message after doing
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You are running this from an external drive.
Mount the drive with read/write permissions. Kind regards |
the thing auto mounts when i plug it in. I don't know how to mount with different permissions.
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Is it an NTFS hard drive ?
Then you need to install ntfs-3g. It depends on your distribution how to do this. Kind regards |
The dekstop is a compaq presario 6000. The External is a Western Digital My Book 500g external hard drive. and i am running the most recent form of debian since none of my games work in Ubuntu. How do i know if my external is an NTFS?
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Look at the output of the command mount, if it is mounted, it will tell you.
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command mount? Ok mounted means i can see the files right? if so the thing just mounts and i have access the second i plug it in. I don't have to use any kind of command. If i am wrong please correct me? (this is foreign to me as i did not need to do all of this to run WoW in arch)
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Plugin the drive, open a terminal and type
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mount Post the output. Kind regards |
I personally think the OP needs to read something like the following: http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Teaching/Unix/
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it is indeed NTFS, the NTFS installation says a dependency called libntfs-3g80 is not installed. where can i find this package
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