On Sat, 2003-03-15 at 10:33, Matt Pittard wrote: > Could you explain what a symlink is and how one goes about doing that? >
a symlink is like a windows shortcut, only it's much lower level (done at the file system) and acts like a real file to all programs (unlike a windows shortcut which is a file). Basically it's a pointer to the file. You make one by doing: ln -s originalfile newsymlink for example: cd /usr/local/bin ln -s /usr/local/Acroread5/bin/acroread acroread If you use a . for the destination, then the symlink is created to the present directory, using the same name as the original file. You can remove a symlink by using rm and you can tell where a symlink is pointing by doing ls -l. also ls -F adds a "@" symbol to all symlinks so you can identify them easily. the "-s" flag means the symlink is a soft link. That's almost always what you want. Michael > Thanks, > Matt > On Fri, 2003-03-14 at 09:11, Andrew Jorgensen wrote: > > /dev/dvd needs to be a symlink to the real dvd device. More help > > available upon request. > > > > Matt Pittard wrote: > > > I installed mplayer and I'm able to watch a DivX video, however, I get > > > an "Could not open DVD device: /dev/dvd" error when I try and play a > > > DVD. Is there something I have done wrong? > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > Matt > > > > > > On Thu, 2003-02-27 at 08:18, Michael L Torrie wrote: > > > > > >>On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 22:59, Matt Pittard wrote: > > >> > > >>>Hello everyone. Name is Matt Pittard. I'm a new user to the land of > > >>>Linux thanks to the Mike Halcrow zealous pitch. I'm really liking it > > >>>thus far, but I'm really all about the multi-media. I have an ATI > > >>>All-in-wonder TV-in and video out. I heard from Mike that a program > > >>>called "mplayer" > > >>>(http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design5/news.html#0.90rc4) is the > > >>>program I need to set this up and I'm a little confused as to the exact > > >>>order of operations of installation. I have installed the apt-get > > >>>program, but I don't know if this is the way to do this. The > > >>>instructions go into a lot of detail about things I need, but I'm not > > >>>sure if I need to install all the codex programs or what. If anyone > > >>>could give me a step by step set of instructions, I'd appreciate it. I'm > > >>>running Red Hat 8.0. > > >> > > >>Although you could install it from source, you'll do just fine by using > > >>apt: > > >> > > >>apt-get update > > >>apt-get install mplayer > > >> > > >>If you want, you can download all the codecs from mplayer's site and > > >>untar them and then put them all in /usr/lib/win32. > > >> > > >>Michael > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >>>Thanks, > > >>> > > >>>Matt > > >>> > > >>> > > >>> > > >>> > > >>>______________________________________ > > >>>Inflex Virus Scanner - installed on mailserver for domain @et.byu.edu > > >>>Queries to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >>> > > >>>____________________ > > >>>BYU Unix Users Group > > >>>http://uug.byu.edu/ > > >>>___________________________________________________________________ > > >>>List Info: http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list > > >> > > >>-- > > >>Michael L Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >> > > >>____________________ > > >>BYU Unix Users Group > > >>http://uug.byu.edu/ > > >>___________________________________________________________________ > > >>List Info: http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list > > >> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ______________________________________ > > > Inflex Virus Scanner - installed on mailserver for domain @et.byu.edu > > > Queries to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > ____________________ > > > BYU Unix Users Group > > > http://uug.byu.edu/ > > > ___________________________________________________________________ > > > List Info: http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list > > > > > > ____________________ > > BYU Unix Users Group > > http://uug.byu.edu/ > > ___________________________________________________________________ > > List Info: http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list > > > > > > ______________________________________ > Inflex Virus Scanner - installed on mailserver for domain @et.byu.edu > Queries to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ____________________ > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info: http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list -- Michael L Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
