Great post Tanjir bro... Very informative and explanatory. Thanks. -- Abu Ashraf Masnun Grad Student, BBA, Khulna University. http://masnun.com
On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 11:01 AM, tanjir <[email protected]> wrote: > Very good question. We often tell users to run commands, but I guess most > times users don't really know what they mean. > So, in the proposed solution, you were asked to run these two commands: > 1. sudo chmod 755 netbeans-6.7.sh > sudo: this command is used before other commands. For example, here, "chmod > 755 something.sh" is a command by itself. But the command runs as current > user. If you add sudo before this command, it will run as root user. Just > for fun create a file called foo.txt. And copy like following "sudo cp > foo.txt bar.txt" (It simply copies foo.txt file to bar.txt). Then type "ls > -al" (it lists all the files and related information). You will see the > owner of bar.txt is root. Now you can't remove bar.txt by "rm bar.txt", you > have to use "sudo rm bar.txt". Once you remove try the same cp command > without sudo (e.g. cp foo.txt bar.txt) and do "ls -al" and see the owner now > is you. > chmod: stands for change mode of the file. Using chmod you can modify the > file permission. By default in ubuntu, files don't have executable > permission, so here you ar adding executable permission. To know more about > chmod, read this article: http://ss64.com/bash/chmod.html > 2. sudo ./netbeans-6.7.sh > You can run ./netbeans-6.7.sh as well. Usually that is what you will do > most of the times. But this case, as you are installing a software, and it > requires to access some files and directories which are owned by root, you > are told to add sudo before the command. ./executable.sh is same as running > any .exe file in DOS. The difference is, you can not only run .sh but also > few other extensions (.pl, .tcl and so on) with proper headings. > (one warning for this type of execution: for example you have exec.sh file > inside foo directory. So you can run a) "./foo/exec.sh" or b) "cd foo" and > "./exec.sh". Both looks innocent and same; but they are not. In the case a > your current directory is one level up. So if your .sh file needs any > resource inside foo directory, it won't be able to find them. The proper > command will be case b.) > ----- > tanjir > visit http://www.tanjir.net > > > --- On Sat, 8/15/09, Sharmin Akter <[email protected]> wrote: > > > From: Sharmin Akter <[email protected]> > > Subject: Re: [Ubuntu-BD] Problem regarding netbeans > > To: "Ubuntu Bangladesh" <[email protected]>, "Lenin" < > [email protected]> > > Received: Saturday, August 15, 2009, 4:02 AM > > Thanks a lot. But how do you know > > that I should issue those commands? What does they > > signifies? > > > > On Sat, 15/08/2009 at 2:30pm, "Lenin" <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 1:59 PM, saeed ahmed <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > >> hello jui, > > >> > > >> download the neatbeans c/c++ IDE from here > > >> > > >> http://www.netbeans.org/downloads/start.html?platform=linux > 〈=en&option= > > >> cpp&version=6.7.1 > > >> > > >> it will download a .sh format file. save this file > > into your home > > >> directory. then run the following command. > > >> > > >> sudo chmod 755 netbeans-6.7.sh > > >> > > >> sudo ./netbeans-6.7.sh et viola! > > >> > > > > > > When I wrote about NetBeans I suggested to go there > > directly. The repo > > > contains only 6.1 verion probably. But at netbeans.org > > you get the latest > > > and stable one and also more than that of the repo > > offers you. Follow what > > > Saeed bro has suggested. Thats all you need. > > > > > > Thanks > > > -- > > > Ubuntu Bangladesh | http://ubuntu-bd.org > > > [email protected] > > > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bd > > > > > > ----- > > With best wishes- > > Sharmin Akter Jui > > > > Powered by the 6zap. Sign up at http://www.6zap.com for an account that > provides > > advanced e-mail, calendar and contacts capabilities. > > > > -- > > Ubuntu Bangladesh | http://ubuntu-bd.org > > [email protected] > > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bd > > > __________________________________________________________________ > Make your browsing faster, safer, and easier with the new Internet > Explorer® 8. Optimized for Yahoo! Get it Now for Free! at > http://downloads.yahoo.com/ca/internetexplorer/ > > -- > Ubuntu Bangladesh | http://ubuntu-bd.org > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bd > -- Ubuntu Bangladesh | http://ubuntu-bd.org [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bd
