On 4 February 2013 12:01, Rowan Berkeley <rowan.berke...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 04/02/13 11:46, Colin Law wrote: >> >> On 4 February 2013 11:40, Rowan Berkeley <rowan.berke...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Unfortunately, it seems that you can >>> have a package sitting in plain view on the desktop but the terminal will >>> keep telling you "no such file or package." This rather stops me in my >>> tracks. >> >> Show us the command you are typing and the error (and tell us which >> folder you are in in the terminal). Preferably copy/paste it out of >> the terminal (Ctrl+Shift+C to copy from terminal). >> >> Colin >> > > Aha - the answer was contained in the question. it couldn't find it on the > desktop, but it found it after I moved it to the home folder.
Either you should have done cd Desktop or in the command specified Desktop/filename Do you know about name completion in the terminal? If you start typing a filename and then hit tab it will try and complete the filename for you. If it does not complete then either there are none matching or severeal, hit tab again and it will show you all matching files (if there are any). So to put the name of a file on the desktop in a command type the_command Des<tab><first chars of filename><tab> Colin > > > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/