Java Cell phone? No I was a bad user, good documentation. Re: Good program, imperfect documentation

2008-01-29 Thread Johnny
Guillaume, I am an English as second language teacher. English is a problem for me because one never knows enough context when dealing in computer matters. Additional cut & paste documentation would have set me straight. cd /usr/local tar -zxvf path where you put the compressed .gz file In c

RE: Good program, imperfect documentation

2008-01-29 Thread Jörg Schaible
Johnny wrote: > http://maven.apache.org/download.html > says at the page bottom > Unix-based Operating Systems (Linux, Solaris and Mac OS X) > >1. Extract the distribution archive to the directory you > wish to install > Maven 2.0.8. These instructions assume you chose > /usr/local/apache-mave

Re: Good program, imperfect documentation

2008-01-29 Thread Lukas Theussl
Relax, lean back and quietly read point #1 again: "Extract the distribution archive to the directory you wish to install Maven 2.0.8. These instructions assume you chose /usr/local/apache-maven-2.0.8. The directory apache-maven-2.0.8 will be created from the archive." This means you should e

Re: Good program, imperfect documentation

2008-01-29 Thread Guillaume Lederrey
I think the problem is actually on the interpretation of the 1st point. The instruction assume you will install maven in /usr/local/apache-maven-2.0.8 when you installed it in /usr/local/apache-maven-2.0.8/apache-maven-2.0.8. There is a natural confusion : is the name of the archive the final direc

Good program, imperfect documentation

2008-01-29 Thread Johnny
http://maven.apache.org/download.html says at the page bottom Unix-based Operating Systems (Linux, Solaris and Mac OS X) 1. Extract the distribution archive to the directory you wish to install Maven 2.0.8. These instructions assume you chose /usr/local/apache-maven-2.0.8 . The directory apache