[ubuntu-za] MOVING A FILE USING MV?

[Lee Sharp]

vincent wrote:
> I've downloaded a file, "wine_gecko-0.1.0.cab" to my desktop & am now trying 
> to move it to /usr/share//wine/gecko/
> 
> 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!
> 
> I'm using 8.04.2. Help please.

As stated by others, capture the full terminal input and output.  I 
think you have a pathing problem.  You may need to;

$cd Desktop
$sudo mv ./wine_gecko-0.1.0.cab /usr/share/wine/gecko/

Note the ./ which means look right here.

			Lee