[ubuntu-uk] Another example of how the manufacturers conspire to ensure that if you don't use Windows you're screwed

[Colin Law]

On 4 February 2013 12:01, Rowan Berkeley <rowan.berkeley at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 04/02/13 11:46, Colin Law wrote:
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>> On 4 February 2013 11:40, Rowan Berkeley <rowan.berkeley at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Unfortunately, it seems that you can
>>> have a package sitting in plain view on the desktop but the terminal will
>>> keep telling you "no such file or package." This rather stops me in my
>>> tracks.
>>
>> Show us the command you are typing and the error (and tell us which
>> folder you are in in the terminal).  Preferably copy/paste it out of
>> the terminal (Ctrl+Shift+C to copy from terminal).
>>
>> Colin
>>
>
> Aha - the answer was contained in the question. it couldn't find it on the
> desktop, but it found it after I moved it to the home folder.

Either you should have done
cd Desktop
or in the command specified Desktop/filename

Do you know about name completion in the terminal?  If you start
typing a filename and then hit tab it will try and complete the
filename for you.  If it does not complete then either there are none
matching or severeal, hit tab again and it will show you all matching
files (if there are any).  So to put the name of a file on the desktop
in a command type
the_command Des<tab><first chars of filename><tab>

Colin

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