Re: debian newbie seeks help
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Andrew Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok. Basicly, in order to run a program all you need to do is type the program name. Like, in order to run netscape in Xwindows, you type netscape and hit enter. [snip] But do remember that the current directory is not necesssarily in your path (unlike DOS etc.), so you'll often have to type: ./progname rather than just: progname regards -- Anthony Suddaby[EMAIL PROTECTED]
debian newbie seeks help
Hooray! I finally got my debian installation to work after many weeks(months) of frustration. Thanks to everyone who gave their suggestions. Now I am worse off before. I don't know how to talk to linux. At all. I can do a few commands, cd, df, dir, and other simple stuf. I don't know, however, how to run programs. I have always prefered dos to windows but this is quite a bit more complex. How do I run programs? How do I know what type of extension is an exe. file? Can someone suggest a book for beginners. Preferably geared toward debian. I though I would be able to figure it out but I think I had better get a book. thanks rod
Re: debian newbie seeks help
rod peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Now I am worse off before. I don't know how to talk to linux. At all. I can do a few commands, cd, df, dir, and other simple stuf. I don't know, however, how to run programs. You just type their name at the shell prompt. 'df' and 'ls' are programs. Did you install any packages using dselect? That is how you get programs that actually do anyting interesting. How do I know what type of extension is an exe. file? Unix does not encode the information that a file is a program in the name of the file. It is a special flag that is set, akin to the 'attributes' of DOS file systems. If you look at the file with the '-l' flag to 'ls' (that is, type 'ls -l filename' or just 'ls -l' at the prompt), the first columns show an encoded version of the flags (they're called permission bits) for the file. You might see, e.g. -rw-r--r-- 1 makholmuser 3371 Jan 26 21:40 README -rwxr-xr-x 1 makholmuser 33896 Jan 6 17:31 configure The `x'es in the permission bits for `configure' tells that it is a file that can be run as a program. Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable No thanks. -- Henning Makholm http://www.diku.dk/students/makholm
Re: debian newbie seeks help
Ok. Basicly, in order to run a program all you need to do is type the program name. Like, in order to run netscape in Xwindows, you type netscape and hit enter. Many commands can include arguments with them, like xterm -bg black -fg white geometry 80x35 will produce an xterm window with black background, white font color and size of 80x35. To find out more about the commands and arguements do man name of command. Thats when you have manual pages installed. A good book could be Linux in a Nutshell, which is a big command reference. HTH, Andrew Never include a comment that will help | Andrew Ivanov someone else understand your code. | [EMAIL PROTECTED] If they understand it, they don't | ICQ: 12402354 need you. |
Re: debian newbie seeks help
rod peters wrote: Can someone suggest a book for beginners. Preferably geared toward debian. I though I would be able to figure it out but I think I had better get a book. First off if you haven't checked out the Debian site do so: http://www.debian.org/ they have documentation there and you can look at archives from the Debian email lists. You can read an on line book, The Debian User's Guide at: http://www.linuxpress.com/ Being new to Linux myself I would suggest the book, Running Linux, Welsh and Kaufman. Another good one is, A Practical Guide to Linux, Sobell. Best to you, Kent
Re: debian newbie seeks help
You can go to the Linux Documentation Project (LDP) at ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/linux/docs and get the getting started guide in html format and the users guide in adobe acrobat format (to read maybe on your windows/dos machine/partition). These are free and a good start. Have fun. rod peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 01/26/99 08:42:44 PM To: debian debian-user@lists.debian.org cc:(bcc: James Robertson/US/CCE) Subject: debian newbie seeks help Hooray! I finally got my debian installation to work after many weeks(months) of frustration. Thanks to everyone who gave their suggestions. Now I am worse off before. I don't know how to talk to linux. At all. I can do a few commands, cd, df, dir, and other simple stuf. I don't know, however, how to run programs. I have always prefered dos to windows but this is quite a bit more complex. How do I run programs? How do I know what type of extension is an exe. file? Can someone suggest a book for beginners. Preferably geared toward debian. I though I would be able to figure it out but I think I had better get a book. thanks rod Hooray! I finally got my debian installation to work after many weeks(months) of frustration. Thanks to everyone who gave their suggestions. Now I am worse off before. I don't know how to talk to linux. At all. I can do a few commands, cd, df, dir, and other simple stuf. I don't know, however, how to run programs. I have always prefered dos to windows but this is quite a bit more complex. How do I run programs? How do I know what type of extension is an exe. file? Can someone suggest a book for beginners. Preferably geared toward debian. I though I would be able to figure it out but I think I had better get a book. thanks rod
Re: debian newbie seeks help
rod peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 01/26/99 08:42:44 PM To: debian debian-user@lists.debian.org cc:(bcc: James Robertson/US/CCE) Subject: debian newbie seeks help Hooray! I finally got my debian installation to work after many weeks(months) of frustration. Thanks to everyone who gave their suggestions. Now I am worse off before. I don't know how to talk to linux. At all. I can do a few commands, cd, df, dir, and other simple stuf. I don't know, however, how to run programs. I have always prefered dos to windows but this is quite a bit more complex. How do I run programs? How do I know what type of extension is an exe. file? Can someone suggest a book for beginners. Preferably geared toward debian. I though I would be able to figure it out but I think I had better get a book. thanks rod I haven't been working with Linux for long, but I have found some excellent websites/books on Linux, and even one on Debian specifically. Try these: Debian Users Guide: http://www.linuxpress.com/debusered2.htm From DOS/Windows to Linux: http://amelia.db.erau.edu/ldp/HOWTO/DOS-Win-to-Linux-HOWTO.html http://www.informatics.sintef.no/~helged/linux_ref.html http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/ldp.html http://members.xoom.com/abihari/faq.html#top Mike _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
