Computer help needed again ~!!!!

[dhunt]

Glad you got it working

If you have any more linux related questions feel free to ask them anytime.

[Brian d marge]

oh I ve got questions alright !!! like why did my ny dress me funny and all the boys at school laugh

No seriously , I managed to get everything I wanted intallled via synaptic

the only thing is getiing permission and copying and unpacking a file into a diretory or folder

I hve the win23 codecs , made a folder in # usr/local/lib/codecs

now just have to get permission

chmod...???

Then to get wine to work .. I downloaded it ,,,but not to sure what to do next

and It would be perfect, it has a really low foot print , handles file really well , I have only 2 files that are doubled up and it tells me which ones to correct !!!

Automatically connects to the hindernet on start up and with out permission NOTHING can be loaded ...no viruses ,,( I think )

When I get more proffitiant at it I will use the force luke !!! and never return to the dark side ...

Stephen

[John Banks]

and people wonder why everyone uses Windows

[dhunt]

As root
Add this to your sources list

deb-src http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt dapper main

then
apt-get update
apt-get install wine

Then as a regular user
wine someprogram.exe

But I'm not really sure why you would want this anyway

[John Banks]

also the usage for chmod

Basic usage:
chmod xxx /folderorfile

Where x is a number 0-7 that defines the permissions.

Execute is 1
Write is 2
Read is 4

Add the numbers to get your desired permissions.
ie for read/write, 2+4=6
full permissions, ie read/write/execute, 1+2+4=7

The first x is for user (the owner of the file)
The second x is for group (users in the owners group)
The third x is for other (everyone else)

chmod 756 /
Would give full permissions to user, read and execute permissions to group and read and write permissions to other.

More to come after my lunch break

Another more friendly way of changing permissions is the following:

chmod u+w file

Which adds the write permission to user (the owner)
u = user
g = group
o = other
a = all (ie u + g + o)

You can add or remove these:
w = write
r = read
x = execute

[Brian d marge]

Reason why I dont use windows

err my Hoo lee fook windows XP ( legal ) copy was found by son .who used it in a most creative manner

Soooo

I find another XP disk without paying................................. one million dollars or what ever harvey KnowMan charges

Or I use the force Luke .....

Its a nice system , just takes a change in learning ...like when I started on comadore 64 ...Still coudnt get that tennis game to play

I wonder if it was the cheap tape recorder I used

BTW thank for the support fella

most helpful

Stephen