[ubuntu-za] MOVING A FILE USING MV?

Jonathan Carter (highvoltage) jonathan at ubuntu.com
Fri May 29 11:49:29 BST 2009


Hi vincent

vincent wrote:
> According to the instructions from sourceforge I need to      
> mkdir  /usr/share/wine/gecko which I've done & then
> mv wine_gecko-0.1.0.cab /usr/share/wine/gecko/
> 
> As root I've done step 1 successfully & created the directory, however every 
> time I try to mv I get an error message as follows:
> "mv:  cannot stat 'wine_gecko-0.1.0.cab' : no such file or directory" & yet 
> it's laying there looking at me on the desktop!

Assuming Ubuntu didn't change the location of where wine is looking for
that file, you could do this first before running that mv command:
mkdir -p /usr/share/wine/gecko

-Jonathan



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