Questions tagged [paths]
Questions related to path in networking, file system and OS.
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Chromium is showing a wrong path to the Desktop
I just installed chromium from the Ubuntu Software center, and when I try to download anything and choose the Desktop link from the left column located on that window that appears, it saves the ...
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Some apps do not launched by double left mouse click
Some app do not launched by double left mouse click if app's path has spaces!
App be launched if run in terminal.
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How to COPY a directory location? [duplicate]
I've been struggling with this since I've installed Ubuntu:
How do I copy a directory location?
For example:
/home/user/downloads/game/game.sh
Do I have to type every single letter on terminal?
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'sudo' is not available (command is not in the PATH)
Okay. I don't just copy-paste commands from the net, and I didn't see how/why that one would mess things up, but here....
I wanted to configure webstorm for dev. So I followed these instructions:
$ ...
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Ubuntu 18.04 lts Composer+drush results in php warning
I installed composer globally, and then install drush globally as well.
When I run drush status for the first time the command was not found, so I found a tutorial and it said I need to add some path ...
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jre and jdk folder in java-11-openjdk-amd64
I have installed java-11-openjdk-amd64 in Ubuntu 18 but there have no jre and jdk folder. I am getting a lot of error while ruining Hadoop, Spark and Hive. Please cooperate me.
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python get the correct path for a file
I want to write out the path of zipfiles, which are located in "zips" folder. Here is my code :
import os, zipfile
directory = 'zips'
for filename in os.listdir(directory):
if filename.endswith(...
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How can I link my Android SDK in external hard drive to my Android studio
Can Android SDK's directory path in my external hard drive be linked to my main drive where Android Studio is installed?
I have gone to Android Studio → Preferences → Appearances and Behavior → ...
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configure error line 38: sort: No such file or directory
Using configure, ends with the following message:
./configure: line 38: sort: No such file or directory
./configure: line 35: sed: No such file or directory
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IRSTLM path environment variable
I am trying to get IRSTLM to work.
I have set the pah using:
PATH=:/usr/local/lib/irstlm:$IRSTLM
And then when I am tyring to run the build-lm.sh function it is telling me that it is located in /usr/...
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How to get the real path of a sh file that is being sourced
I added this line into my ~/.bashrc
. /mnt/c/Users/enzo/drive/projects/dotfiles/init.sh
And and inside of init.sh I am trying to get the path of init.sh but I am not able to.
I tried this so far:
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Set LD_LIBRARY_PATH correctly
I am using Docker with image of Ubuntu 16.04. I am using this docker to run:
Import C++ classes in python with the help of boost.python
Import matlab's python package in python with the help Matlab ...
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Understanding how PATH environment variable works
I have followed many guides and books to understand the PATH variable concept but none of them explains "completely" how this works in Linux.
For example if I set a a Path like the following in Bash:
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How to set Path for opencv libraries and header files when installing opencv?
can anyone help me for two questions when installing opencv:
how to set the OpenCV libraries "Path" as "/usr/lib/"?
how to set the OpenCV header files. "Path" as "/usr/include/opencv"?
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Recovering the relative path option
Managed to delete the relative path option in linux by typing in rm .*, now I can't change or add files to any directory. How can these be recovered? Running a ls -a and the standard . and .. ...
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Ubuntu 16.04: Log in problem when using prime-select intel and adding /usr/lib/nvidia-396 to LD_LIBRARY_PATH
I'm doing some computation with my GPU (GTX 970) so I decided to use my integrated card from my CPU (i7-4790K) to display my 2 screens, hence I used prime-select intel to do so.
In doing so it seems ...
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Is there a package installer in which a i can choose where to install?
Since changing the installation path or directory of dpkg is not a good and risky idea I would like to know if there are any package installers in which I can choose to install where I want since my ...
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App installed in directory on the PATH, but not found. Weird /snap/bin - error message
I have the app minikube in /usr/local/bin/minikube. When I do minikube version with the whole path, I get:
$ /usr/local/bin/minikube version
minikube version: v0.28.2
When I do minikube version ...
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How do i specify a file location in terminal?
Running the following commands:
wine /Home/Downloads/steamsetup.exe
wine Username/Home/downloads/steamsetup.exe
resulted in file not found. How do I specify a file location in terminal?
I am on ...
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Zip2john issue on ubuntu 18.04 LTS
Problem:
root@ITSASECRET:~/src/john/run# zip2john
: command not found
I want to add that the srcript is in the directory. I also had a lot of trouble installing Rexgen as well as Bison and ...
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My PATH variable seems to be set OK, but does not work [duplicate]
I installed some programm (xlsx2csv) using pip3. The executable of the software is in ~/.local/bin.
My $PATH is defined in ~/.profile like this:
PATH="$HOME/bin:$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH"
echo $PATH
/...
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How to find the path of a specific application (Google Chrome)?
I have Google Chrome downloaded on my laptop and I want to find where it is compared to a Windows path use it, basically for a text to speech project.
On Windows it is located here :
chrome_path = '...
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Path of a file in the user directory from root directory [closed]
Following is the directory structure for a text file textfile.txt ,what will be the file path for the text file for an python script readtext.py which is in the in the root direcory. The python file ...
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What is the absolute path to the file that contains all the drives? [closed]
What is the absolute path to the file that contains all the drives, hardware and network shares, that are mounted by the system during boot?
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iPython3 opened in Terminal - os.path.dir adds letter 'd' to path and triggers File not found error
Trying to iterate through a folder.
I am working on ipython3, opened in Terminal.
This is the code (in python 3.6.4):
for filename in os.listdir('.'):
for file in filename:
with open(os....
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My script runs fine when I run it from the terminal but it doesn't work with cron. Why?
I'm creating a script to manage my icons and I'm using the command gvfs-set-attribute in order to do that. The script works fine when I run it with the terminal but it fails to work when I use cron. ...
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Login Loop in Ubuntu 16.04 after editing the Path
I was editing the path as said in this page: Source
After I did that, I logged out, and ever since that, I was not able to Login.
I have tried various Login Loop Remedies said in this Exchange, but ...
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PATH=$PATH:`pwd` - What happens when this command is executed?
What happens when this command is executed?
PATH =$PATH:`pwd`
Error: Nothing happens when i execute the command in the terminal.
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CLASSPATH Security
On this post someone mentioned in a comment that adding .: to the PATH environment variable is a security vulnerability. Is adding .: to the CLASSPATH environment variable also a security ...
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How can I install petrify and set it up?
I want to install petrify -- a tool for simulation of Asynchronous Circuits -- so I downloaded the file and in this folder there is an INSTALL file that says:
You should define properly define the ...
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AI Gym Installation, python path issue
I ran 2 separate installation instructions for gym
pip install gym
and
git clone https://github.com/openai/gym
cd gym
pip install -e
and then ran python
import gym
and get the output
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Need to clean user home folder and organize game folders (with saves, configs, etc)
I have many installed games, from various sources/stores/frontends (Steam, GOG, Humble Store and Lutris with modules like DOSBox, Libretro, WINE and ScummVM).
Unfortunately many game developers elect ...
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When I do an export path using terminal, which file does it save to? [duplicate]
For example, when I run export export PATH=$PATH:$GOROOT/bin:$GOPATH/bin or a GOPATH=~/workspace/me/go which file does this get added to?
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How to solve the conda virtual env and system env conflict on import cv2?
I have installed opencv 3.4.1 correctly on my system enviroment.
But after I create a conda virtual environment using opencv3.2.0, it leads some problems here:
Under the conda virtual env, I have to ...
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Can I make `sudo` follow my path via CLI?
You can edit sudoers file and set secure_path to match your path. This is documented in Unix & Linux.
Is there a command line switch I can pass to sudo such that it uses the path I have set? For ...
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Unable to install geojson package for R
I have Ubuntu 16.04 and R 3.4.3. When I run
install.packages("geojson", dep=TRUE)
in R, I get the following error:
dependency ‘protolite’ is not available for package ‘geojson’
Therefore I run
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Hard-Drive name changes depending on file search method
I am new to Linux and Ubuntu and I am struggling with file path names and locations. I have a new computer with LTS 16.04 installed. This computer has a solid state hard drive and an optical drive. ...
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Connect GIMP snap to gmic
So I have installed the GIMP snap, it works nicely. However, how do I get it to use gmic? Can I just point the plugin path to gmic, and where would that be?
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If I compile and install my own Python from source and install packages, will it affect the system Python installation?
Say I compile Python 3 from source, configuring it with --prefix=$HOME/.local and installing it.
Since $HOME/.local is in my path, and is preferred, now when I type python3 in my shell, I get my ...
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How can I open games I downloaded?
Every time I download a game from the terminal I can't open it.
Example 1:
$ sudo apt-get install 0ad
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
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How to set the path variable of php after installing LAMP Server
From the terminal I have logged in as Root user
sudo -s
In the terminal
root@username:~# php -m
The program 'php' can be found in the following packages:
* php7.0-cli
* hhvm
Try: ...
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Reference to home not working in Nautilus Action-Config-Tool
The path field (In the given Screenshot) is given the input: ~/.subseeker/subseeker.py, but it's not working, the code isn't executing when the command runs.
I even tried- $HOME/.subseeker/subseeker....
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Backup Ubuntu Software and Wipe Ubuntu
Hello I am new to Ubuntu. I Installed a bunch of softwares like Android Studio and JDK and other stuff. Now my ubuntu is messed up and It doesn't show the login screen and when I start lightdm and put ...
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Why should I STILL use --with-boost for ./configure when I exported PATH variable for boost directory
I would love to hear your explanations and methods of solutions for the problem that I have been facing for such a long time by now.
I am working in a remote cluster where sudo command is not allowed ...
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got an error gawk: symbol lookup error: gawk: undefined symbol: mpfr_z_sub
all, I get an error that indicates that
gawk: symbol lookup error: gawk: undefined symbol: mpfr_z_sub when I want to compile a simulation from www.yonch.com/wireless.
This error was occurred when I ...
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Nvidia GPU heating up
I noticed occasionally my GPU was heating up when doing usual tasks (idle + Internet browsing, not video). I select intel-onboard in Nvidia-server but the problem persists.
I used the following ...
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How to add/edit PATH when using X2Go client logging into ubuntu terminal
noob here. I want to add a folder to PATH only under my account. Tried to search for answers for quite a while. Ending up get methods like creating .profile .bash_profile under my home directory(~), ...
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What is the difference between local and .local in ubuntu?
Echoing path in ubuntu returns following colon separated paths,
/home/stack/bin:/home/stack/.local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/snap/...
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Is there any difference in setting path for golang, python or java in ubuntu? [duplicate]
In some tutorials path is set in ~/.profile however in some other tutorials they use etc/path or ~/.bashrc, can you explain whats the difference and how it works in linux ubuntu. I am sorry for such a ...
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Why does `/sbin` not included in $PATH for new user?
ifconfig is located in /sbin/ifconfig. I don't have problem issuing ifconfig command in root user.
The problem started when I created a new user.
root@Ubuntu:~# useradd -m user
root@Ubuntu:~#
root@...
