I know it might be confusing, but you learn by doing. I
remember the first few fitful times I tried installing/using
Linux. It is confusing as hell coming straight from Macs or
Windows.
You might want to figure out the problem with your command
line. If you can link a KDE icon to the command, but cannot
type the command, it might be useful to see why that
is. For instance, if your command prompt is to the right of
a hash mark ("#") then you are running as root and cannot
execute /usr/local/bin commands. If the prompt is next to
"$" then you are running as user and the former reason does
not apply. Which is it?
Phil
P.S. If you used the graphical login did you log in as
root? If so, you can type the full /usr/local/bin/acroread
command and it should work anyway. It's best though to log
in as your username.
On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Dennis Myers wrote:
� Ok, that did it, I still can't get the command acroread blahblah.pdf to work,
� but I was able to link my desktop Icon to the acroread file in
� /usr/local/bin/acroread and when I click on it it pops up Acrobat Reader and the
� world is good again. Thanks, once again for your help. Dennis
�
� --
� Dennis-Registered Linux User #180842
