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Originally Posted by Elixer
1) I have a program installed in Xandros. It does not require instalation you copy the executable file and directories to a directory and just run it at the prompt. I have it running in Xandros. I put the program on My Debian Lenny system and it runs far superior with no lagging. It saves file that allows me to go back to the same place where i lesft off. The file name is Machinarium.sol This file is locacted on my Xandros system and should be (according to the author) on Debian Lenny as follows. /Home/'user name'/macromedia/Flash_Player/#SharedObjects/{RANDOMWORD}/localhost/{PathToYourMachinariumInstallDirectory}/machinarium/Machinarium.sol. It is there on my Xandros system but the only items in /Home/Jon are Desktop and edid.bin. Is there something hidden from me. I have done searches for Macromedia, Machinarium.sol, Flash_Player and nothing comes up. What am I doing wrong. I have looked around with gnome and also at the command prompt with root priveliges. I can save my place in this progrm and return to it so I only make an assumtion that it is realy here on my system but whay can i not find it, even a file search turns up nothing. So frustrating.
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I am unfamiliar with Machinarium.sol. However Macromedia flash is not installed by default in debian and is something you do need to get from adobe.com or the non-free repositories. Also in Debian and most other Linux distributions, hidden files and directories have their names start with a "." without the quotes. For example a hidden directory may be named .hidden. You can use the -a option with the ls command to show all. For example
Code:
jared@debian:~$ su
Password:
debian:/home/jared# cd /root
debian:~# ls -a
. .fwbackups .loki .recently-used.xbel
.. .gnome2 .mcop .ssh
.aptitude .gnupg .mcoprc .VirtualBox
.bash_history .ICEauthority .nvidia-settings-rc .vmware
.bashrc .kaboom.log .profile .wapi
.config .kde .pulse .Xauthority
.dbus kde3-backup .pulse-cookie .xine
.debtags .local .qt .xsession-errors
I ran that in my root directory as my normal user directory has a bizillion directories and results that would come up, and that much data is not needed for the example. You do not have to be root to us the ls-a command.
I would suggest using the ls -a command on your home directory to see if there is a .macromedia or .adobe folder there. Macromedia is now owned by adobe so it is not adobe flash. Something to be aware of when you are doing your search.
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Originally Posted by Elixer
2) Ones I figure out where to put this file I will need to know the procedure to set permissions as I have a difrent user name in Xandros and yes, Debian Lenny knows this as I have moved it to my desktop and it shows in gnome with a warning. I Did some reading but I am unsure about the code. It seems that I need to use chmod. There is warning in the reading stating that I can mess things up if I don't know what I am doing. That would be me! There is a swithch that can be used with chmod to set permissions the same as another existing file on my system. Ther reading says to use --reference=file to set permission as another given file Thanks, Jon
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chmod is a command used to change permissions. to change ownership you would want to use the command chown.
to change the owner of a directory you would use this command
Code:
chown <new username> <directory to be changed>
As an example say I wanted to change the directory /cars to be owned by user frank. Here is how I would do it.
Now you may want to be aware of the -R option. This is to be recurssive. In other words this would also apply the change to and files and folders located inside of the directory you chown. For example if I run this command
Code:
chown -R frank /cars
The result of the above command will change the ownership of all files and folder inside of /cars as well as the folder /cars to be owned by the user frank.
I hope this helps you out a bit.
Cheers,
Jared
