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Dave Griffiths

2004-01-23, 7:08 pm

Hi

For the last year I have been using Nautilus to create Symbolic links
without any troubles.

I am now trying to do it from command line I don't get the results I need.

trying to create a link from /usr/local/kde/bin/quanta to /usr/bin

I use.

ln -s /usr/local/kde/bin/quanta /usr/bin/quanta

it creates an entry in /usr/bin but when I try to execute it it says that
the file /usr/bin/quanta no longer exists, it also gives it a "movie file"
icon.

where am I going wrong?

Thanks

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Dave Griffiths

2004-01-23, 7:08 pm

On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 15:57:40 +0200, Dave Griffiths wrote:
quote:

> Hi
>
> For the last year I have been using Nautilus to create Symbolic links
> without any troubles.
>
> I am now trying to do it from command line I don't get the results I need.
>
> trying to create a link from /usr/local/kde/bin/quanta to /usr/bin
>
> I use.
>
> ln -s /usr/local/kde/bin/quanta /usr/bin/quanta
>
> it creates an entry in /usr/bin but when I try to execute it it says that
> the file /usr/bin/quanta no longer exists, it also gives it a "movie file"
> icon.
>
> where am I going wrong?
>
> Thanks



Just read the post, I need to clarify that the executable quanta is
installed in /usr/local/kde/bin/ and I want to create the link in /usr/bin
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