Hi :) These are unix commands so you find them much the same in Gnu&Linux such as Ubuntu, openSuSE, RedHat, Mageia as well as in BSDs such as FreeBSD, Mac and others.
cd = Change Directory ls = LiSt = roughly the same as "dir" it gives a list of what is in the folder/directory you are in I think the cd command is a little wrong but ended up doing the right thing. The aim was to get into the "home" folder and you started from there anyway so when the instruction didn't give a folder to change into you still ended up in the "home" folder. I think the instruction was meant to be cd ~ or cd /home/user-name but it doesn't matter. The command; mkdir -p libreoffice/builds should MaKe a new directory/folder. Actually it should create 2 new folders. It should create a folder called "libreoffice" and inside that create a sub-folder called "builds". There are a lot of guides to help with unix commands but Gnu&Linux tends to have a wider range of commands and some of them are slightly different from the BSD ones so they just wont work in Mac. I doubt they would cause harm but it's probably worth being cautious. I think you can get a quick-help / cheat-sheet to get an idea of what a command does by typing "--help" after the command or "-h". So now you know the 3 commands above you can try; cd --help cd -h ls --help ls -h Errr, i'd be cautious about the mkdir command in case it ends up creating a folder called "--help" although that probably would not be hugely bad anyway. Regards from Tom :) On 21 January 2015 at 17:05, Spencer Graves <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Jan 21, 2015, at 7:54 AM, Stephan Bergmann <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On 01/21/2015 10:09 AM, Alex Thurgood wrote: >>> Le 21/01/2015 10:02, Stephan Bergmann a écrit : >>>>> If you want to later use LO4352, when you start it up, it should only >>>>> use the LO4352 user configuration folder (assuming you have named them >>>>> the same). I don't thin you can have both running at the same time. >>>> >>>> Where did you get that idea from? The location of the user profile is >>> >>> Probably because that is how it used to work. >> >> Are you really sure that it ever worked that if you rename LibreOffice.app >> to Foo.app it will then locate its user profile under ~/Library/Application >> Data/Foo/ instead of ~/Library/Application Data/LibreOffice/? That would >> surprise me. > > > See, > “https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Installing_in_parallel/OS_X”, referenced > in an earlier email from Alex in this thread: This describes “New Method” > and “Old Method”. “Old Method” says, "Up to and including the 3.3.x series, > the way to separate configurations on the Mac simply involved renaming your > existing installation user configuration folder to the same name as the name > of the LibreOffice application.” That doesn’t mean it ever worked, but that > seems to be what is described under “Old Method” ;-) > > > I’m still having other problems parsing the “New Method”: A first > step says to “cd”, then run “mkdir -p libreoffice/builds" > in a terminal. > > > Is this correct? When I “cd” then “ls”, I get the following: > > > Applications Documents Library Music Public > Desktop Downloads Movies Pictures > > > I don’t see “libreoffice”. Or is “libreoffice” in “mkdir -p > libreoffice/builds” simply a shorthand for the local LibeOffice installation > directory? If that’s true, then how do I find the local LibreOffice > installation directory? > > > Thanks so much for all your help. Sorry for being so dense. > > > Best Wishes, > Spencer > >> >> -- >> To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] >> Problems? >> http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ >> Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette >> List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ >> All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be >> deleted > > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
