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Just installed Ubuntu and it seem quite good. If I can get a few plugings working in GIMP.... goodbye Windows 🙂
Trying to copy a plugin into GIMP and it's moans about me not being the owner ???
Any Ubuntu gurus on here .
usr/lib/gimp/2.0/plug-ins
Cheeers RT
looks like you need root privileges to copy files to that directory. In a terminal window you can type;
cd [i]path to your downloaded plugin[/i]
sudo cp [i]pluginname[/i] usr/lib/gimp/2.0/plug-ins
Thank DM52... I think I'm nearly there, but get
cp: cannot create regular file `usr/lib/gimp/2.0/plug-ins': No such file or directory
usr/lib/gimp/2.0/plug-ins has a slash missing 🙂
/usr/lib/gimp/2.0/plug-ins
either
- locate file/directory in Places, right click proberties and assign rights by ticking boxes, or
- if the fire/directory is called fd, start a Terminal sessio, use cd to change to the containing directory (the one where the file/directory is) and enter the command [b]chmod 777 fd[/b]
that gives all access to everyone.
ooops - thanks for picking that one up woody
Thank you all. Works now. What a fuss to copy a file. I wonder of a GUI Terminal exists for us ex-Windows morons.
It was like the good ol' MSDOS days 🙂
Still liking Linux though 🙂 feeling freer already from M$ etc.
Quicken works with Wine 🙂
Lotus Organizer is the last problem program.
Nah, stick with the command line, it's where it's at! 🙂
chmod 777
Yay, everyone has the right to it. Why not recursively apply that to the whole system?
Oh, that's right permissions are there for a [url= http://www.freeos.com/articles/3127/ ]reason[/url].
(Grumpy old *nix user who is only ever truly happy if he is using Gentoo or OpenBSD...)
Quicken and wine, sounds like a nice meal 🙂
Seriously though, get to grips with the shell input, it makes finding and fixing any problems you may have a doddle. You could do it via GUI no problem, but the reason its a bit of a faff and requires root access is so that no miserable virus/kid/mistake maker can screw up your main running files without thinking about it seriously first. Ideally plugins should come with an installation script but they rarely do.
<aside> Always wondered how many Ubuntu type users just happily paste
[code]"sudo /command/I/have/no/idea/what/it/does/but/it/might/fix/my/wireless"[/code]
into their box on a daily basis....</aside>