talntid

There is a thread on this site about configuring WINE, as well as one for "configuring WINE for games"

I would check those out.

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DanNEBTD

when I go to it says no such directory

(and yes i am replacing with my own username . . ) . . any suggestion?

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The Hundred Gunner

It MUST be /home/<username>

This is because you're using absolute pathnaming. When you're using absolute pathnaming, you define its absolute directory, and everything starts with /.

What you typed was an example of a relative pathname. What you were telling the terminal was that there is a folder called home/<username> when you were already in /home/<username>. So you were ultimately telling the terminal that you wanted to go to this directory:

/home/<username>/home/<username>

If you want to cd to a folder that's already in your pwd (present working directory), you can quickly move to it by doing cd <foldername>, and that folder name would be without a preceding /.

For example, if you had a folder called "photos" in your home directory, you would be able to cd to it by opening up the terminal and just typing:

Note the lack of / before photos.

Also, always remember that your terminal always opens up in your /home/<username> directory, also known simply as ~.

To very quickly cd to your /home/<username> directory, type simply "cd" and then hit enter without any arguments. Or you can do "cd ~"; that's the same thing. Aaaaaand... If you're in a directory way out there and say you want to cd to your Desktop, you can do: "cd ~/Desktop".

There's today's lesson on the cd command

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talntid

THG is right. I was planning on posting about this, but decided to wait until this morning. Looks like he beat me to it. REP+!

Did that get it working for you, DanNEBTD?

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I ended up having to reformat a/w after some grub MBR issues . . . its installed fine now but after the login screen for steam goes away nothing else comes up . . oh and I havent run that last command as it wont let me go to: 'cd /home/USERNAME/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Steam" . . the error line shows it stops @ /Program " . . and when I put "/Program\ Files" it reads it but says its not there.


long story short: I dual boot so I gave up

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talntid

Bah, you should have just went..

cd /home
cd USERNAME
cd .wine
cd drive_c
cd Prog[tab] (it will auto complete)
cd Steam



just like DOS!

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hmm . .didnt know it would auto complete . . I feel so inferior in the linux forum :'( lol

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HatesFury

Try the actual Ubuntu forums.... the guys over here are nice... the guys in the ubuntu forms can be rather nasty at times. besides, if you've been doing M$ for 10 years, switching to Linux takes some adjustment.

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If you don't use quotes, the terminal will stop reading your command at the first white space (tab/new line/ space). If ANY file or folder name has a white space in it, it MUST be enclosed in quotes. For example: you have a folder called My Birthday Pics in your home directory. To cd to it, you would:

If you had a picture you wanted to copy called Birthday 1 in that same directory, and it were a JPEG, you could do this:

So if you have any spaces, you'll have to use quotes. You can use quotes anyway, even if there are no spaces, but you can't lack quotes when a file/folder name has a space. And I believe they must be double and not single quotes.

Oh, another note on the cd command:

That means "go to parent directory." It'll quickly bring you one directory up. I find myself using this one a lot... I'll go deep into directories, and when I want to go a few up I'll be hitting "cd .." "cd .." "cd .." "cd .." lol

PS: My clan's name is cd. And yes, it does stand for "Change Directory," to honor the original Doom series, in which this command had to be issued before executing the game

cd\The Hundred Gunner

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DaB0mb

ehh, u think if it has COD4?

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