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zuben, you're doing this the hard way!I've typed in cd Downloads. Says no such folder. I'll try it the way you listed it.
Whatever is causing that is probably the whole problem.
I simply must have something on my system that makes Ubuntu run weird.
I either get no such folder, or you don't have permission.
I don't have the opt folder anywhere and can't create it. I've opened and looked through every folder listed and don't see it. I got the path Sys>users>local from a few answers. OPT ain't in that folder.
Or how to create the damn folder? Full path please.
@palmtree - I get as far as using the opt folder, terminal says it doesn't exist (it doesn't) goodbye and stops.
It's funny - the TAR.BZ2 for the older FX ESR which updated wrong worked.
I extracted to the downloads, clicked on the FX icon and it ran, albeit the wrong version.
I got the files for Skype and the Epson Photo V300 to work via terminal. FX ESR worked on Mint and 10.10 just the way you described.
BTW, what's the number sign mean? Enter? I've used>
/
/home
/data
swap
*I* never, ever, ever set up users to have their own ~/downloads or ~/Downloads directory. So those never exist on computers I set up. But they *DO* have a downloads location! As I've said, mine go in /data/downloads
For global access. Any user can access files in /data/downloads. Any user can also choose NOT to download there, for example if they're downloading something they wouldn't want others to have access to. But since most downloads are things like software packages, updates, etc., it makes sense to let all users easily access them.*I* never, ever, ever set up users to have their own ~/downloads or ~/Downloads directory. So those never exist on computers I set up. But they *DO* have a downloads location! As I've said, mine go in /data/downloads
Why? My downloads directory is currently at ~/Downloads but most of the files there get moved anyway
For global access. Any user can access files in /data/downloads. Any user can also choose NOT to download there, for example if they're downloading something they wouldn't want others to have access to. But since most downloads are things like software packages, updates, etc., it makes sense to let all users easily access them.
What about capitalization?
I didn't set up any directories. Downloads folder was in the home directory, so I used it.
Seemed like a logical place to put stuff rather than the generic My Documents folder where Windows sticks everything. I did create a downloads folder on Windows.
Then why didn't downloads work on the command until I used D instead of d?
This is why Linux is viewed with awe and suspicion: too many ways to do the same thing.
I can go to the same location on disk in several different ways-- ~/Downloads /home/dngrsone/Downloads $HOME/Downloads
There's no place like:
~
~/
$HOME
/home/MoodyBlues
and, for good measure:
127.0.0.1
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I know. That's why it's separate.Actually 127.0.0.1 isn't the same as the other 4...
I know. That's why it's separate.:laugh:
(The idea is to say it as 'home'--"there's no place like...")
The standard environment variable describing the full path of your home directory is HOME. We access it by using the $ sign, that's the dereferencing operator. I can get to it or use it saying $HOME - or depending on the command, just saying ~ as mentioned earlier.
On my very plain vanilla Ubuntu 12.04, Firefox downloads by default to -
$HOME/Downloads
Unlike Windows, you can have a two subdirectories in the same place, one named downloads and the other named Downloads - they'll be as different as a dog and a cat because the os is case sensitive.
Does that answer it? I don't want to answer at cross purposes to the real question, let me know.
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That was the confusion. I'd use (expletive deleted) to get around that in Windows. That's where my downloads go. I got confused with one of Moody's posts about not letting a user set up some kind of download file.
As I've said [a few times], the solution has been provided but, for whatever reason(s), you're choosing not to do it. *shrug*Now if someone can help me fix that damn Opt file business so I can get ESR in. That's the last 2 problems.