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Title: Symlink - Help Please
Post by: rogerbowering on January 08, 2005, 07:12:04 pm

I've just installed Cacko 1.22 and am painfully reinstalling software.

As TextMaker won't install to SD (for me!) I'm following the detailed instructions given to me by SoftMaker.

After manually placing all the files into the right folder on the SD, their instructions are:
Log in as root
su
Create a symbolic link:
-s /mnt/card/QtPalmtop/bin/tm /home/QtPalmtop/bin/tm

but I get
bash: -s: command not found

I've tried this in QKonsole and Terminal - same result. It worked in the previous Rom, but I've noticed in posts in the Rom forum that other people are merrily symlinking away.

I am not in the least bit technical or knowledgeable in Linux - I just want my Word Processor to run !!

Please let me know what I may be doing wrong, preferably in short simple sentences :-)

Thanks

Title: Symlink - Help Please
Post by: Teletubbie on January 08, 2005, 07:21:09 pm

Hi,
it is not

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-s
It is:

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ln -s
So in your case:

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ln -s /mnt/card/QtPalmtop/bin/tm /home/QtPalmtop/bin/tm
Have Fun,
Sam

Title: Symlink - Help Please
Post by: rogerbowering on January 08, 2005, 07:46:54 pm

That did it!

Thanks