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05-04-2003, 04:29 AM
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How to make symbolic link?
I am using a little program called NURBANA and I got following instructions to make it run smoothly in Redhat 9.0:
"Perhaps your libGL is different from the version Nurbana is trying to link with... try making a symbolic link to libgl.so.1 in your libs folder... " -Justin
Please tell what this means and how to do it?
-Tommi

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05-04-2003, 04:36 AM
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the "ln" program makes links between files, which basically means giving one file two or more names and locations, rather than just duplicating the data. a symbolic link means a high level link where you *sort of* only have a "shortcut" to the real file, rather than having multiple entries in the FAT table. you creating a symblic link...
ln -s /path/to/real/file /path/to/new/file
check the manpage for ln for more details
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05-04-2003, 04:41 AM
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Thanks for quickest reply I have ever got!
-Tommi
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05-04-2003, 05:04 AM
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my fingers are faster when i first get up...
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05-04-2003, 12:41 PM
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Hi,
Also, at this time I suggest you to also look up the differences between a symbolic (sym or soft) link and a hard link. Just to learn and of course, it might be of use later.
Cheers,
Senthil
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05-05-2003, 09:35 AM
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info ln
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05-05-2003, 04:42 PM
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$man ln
Is what I do
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05-05-2003, 07:14 PM
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man ln and info ln display different information.
info ln begins with an explanation of "hard links" and "symbolic links", what is what this post asked.
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05-07-2003, 08:58 AM
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Thanks for reply...I still think that this program does not work really well with Redhat 9.0. Maybe I should move back to redhat 8.0. When I try to save with Nurbana in redhat 9.0 I will get "segmentation fault". Otherwise it seems to work. I will next test this symbolic link...maybe after that it starts to work.
But thanks for help! :-)
-Tommi 
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