Questions tagged [symbolic-link]
A symbolic link or symlink is a special type of file that contains a reference to another file or directory as an absolute or relative path. For most operations, symbolic links are transparent and the read or write operations on symbolic link files are redirected to the files that symbolic link files link to.
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do-release-upgrade from 16.04 failing due to "Your python install is corrupted."
When trying to upgrade from 16.04 LTS via do-release-upgrade, I was getting the following error:
Your python install is corrupted. Please fix the '/usr/bin/python3' symlink.
Trying the many ...
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symlink error with chmod
After installing fastqc, tried setting the permission using:
chmod +x ~/miniconda3/bin/fastqc
But got the error:
chmod: cannot operate on dangling symlink '/home/usernname/miniconda3/bin/fastqc
What ...
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Help file appered after a System Crash
I just tried to open a very large .csv File which couldnt be opened in LibreOffice due to to many numbers of rows. I restarted my PC and now I got a File named 'help' in my home folder if i try to cd ...
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Link directory to another directory to ccopy files
I have a folder:
/share/public
I am working in the folder:
/home/john/workingfolder
It means that currently I am in the "workingfolder".
I would like to send files to /share/public but ...
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How to link to different version of a shared object (.so) on different version of Ubuntu?
I have developed a program which links to ncurses-dev and I made a .deb installer for it.
On Ubuntu 18, my main binary links to libncurses.so.5, but on Ubuntu 20, libncurses.so.6 exists instead of ...
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GPIO Failed to create symbolic link. Operation not permitted
I'm trying to create a symlink to an existing gpio symlink in the /sys/class/gpio/ directory, and I'm getting the following output:
ln: failed to create symbolic link '/sys/class/gpio/MyLink': ...
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Cannot locate executable through symbolic link
I'm new to Linux/Mac OS in it's entirety, but I've learned a lot the last few days.
My NativeScript app builds using the python command, but my system only has python3 installed.
That is all fine, and ...
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What kind of directories are these?
I'm looking at a directory that was created for backups. One of the subfolders is the root of a Git repo, and contains the .git folder. That folder also contains links to other folders in the system. ...
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Ubuntu 22 Firefox fails to start with symbollically linked home directory
On installing Ubuntu 22 in a separate new partition on a machine previously running Ubuntu 20, I have replaced the installed /home/chris with a symbolic link to my old /home/chris directory in another ...
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My Ubuntu 20.04 spits out "logger: socket /dev/log: No such file or directory"
I'm a newbie to Ubuntu. I am trying to run a script that needs access to /dev/log when the following error occurred "logger: socket /dev/log: No such file or directory". Any ideas on how to ...
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Inconsistent UDEV behavior 'dev/video14'
I am trying to write a udev rule that creates a symlink /dev/video14 that points to the /dev/video index of my usb camera, so that I can map it to the same index consistently.
I currently have the ...
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nano: no version information available
The more I try to fix this problem the worse it gets. I have conda installed, and I think its related to this problem. Every time I try to open nano, I get this error message - before today it was ...
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Get a udev symlink registered as a serial in softwares
I created udev rules to have specific symlinks to my USB device.
The USB device is a serial device that usually comes up as ttyUSB0 or ttyUSB1. I made the symlink to be sure I have always the same ...
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how to create symlink available from anywhere
How can I create symlink located at \\100 that points to /media so that when users enter cd \\100 they get redirected to /media and it doesn't matter in which directory it was entered?
Thanks in ...
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Multiple systemd broken links, system won't boot
On a reboot today, the system (Ubuntu Desktop 20.04.4) hung upon reaching the graphical target. Conspicuously, several services failed to start ahead of this, including snapd.
Booting the machine to ...
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is changing symlinks for "linux from scratch" harmful?
I started linux from scratch for educational purpose. In preparing section it says:
Bash-3.2 (/bin/sh should be a symbolic or hard link to bash)
Bison-2.7 (/usr/bin/yacc should be a link to bison or ...
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libc.6 is a symlink to libc-2-31?
I'm running ubuntu 20.04, and I'm tryying to run a python pwn script that has the following line:
libc = ELF("./libc.so.6")
Which fails with:
No such file or directory: './libc.so.6'
So I ...
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Issue with apt-get upgrade in Ubuntu 21.10 on Raspberry PI 4: Failed to create symlink, Operation not permitted
Can't upgrade Ubuntu 21.10 on my Raspberry PI 4 via apt-get upgrade. There is the full log:
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get upgrade -y
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
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delete symlink that points to itself
I accidentally created a symbolic link that points to itself in the same directory. I tried ln -sfn and rm -f.
I'm using Ubuntu 20.04.
It's in my Pictures folder:
picture_link -> picture_link
Is ...
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udev does not create symlink
I am trying to give my sensor device a static name. I opened a file called 99-usb-serial.rules in /etc/udev/rules.d and wrote the following rule:
KERNEL=="ttyACM0",KERNELS=="1-1",...
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Is using snap and using "move to trash" mutually exclusive when using home directories on alternative partitions
I slowly started to accept that Ubuntu is forcing its users to use snap instead of apt (which I've used for 20+ years and like). Having been around for a few years, I'm offloading my home directories ...
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Make Symlink to folder on USB stick to be owned by www-data group
I have a website hosted locally on an Apache2 at my Ubuntu machine, (Kubuntu 20.04). There are some audio files on a folder at a USB stick at the path /media/MyUserName/KINGSTON/audio while the public ...
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After installing youtube-dl on Ubuntu 21.10 with the instructions on github many applications, including default text editor, broke
A new user here, running ubuntu on version 21.10 impish.
I was installing youtube-dl with the instructions on the github page (https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl#installation):
$ sudo curl -L ...
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usrmerge of {/bin, /sbin, /lib}: How is the system supposed to be?
It seems that
some systems have a symlinks like this
/bin -> usr/bin
/lib -> usr/lib
/sbin -> usr/sbin
Some systems have single file-symlinks of executables in these directories like ...
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how to place link to URL / Webpage on the launcher? [duplicate]
Has anyone pinned a URL to the Launcher (Ubuntu 20.04)? Nothing I've tried works.
Please show how you have done this with a working example. (a link to AskUbuntu.com?)
There are a great many posts on ...
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I removed a symbolic link, and Ubuntu became unusable
I removed the symbolic link for '/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ld-2.31.so' in the directory '/usr/lib64'. Suddenly most everything stopped working. I cannot even issue simple Linux commands like 'pwd', 'ls',...
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/usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/sys contains only broken symbolic links
My O/S is Ubuntu 20.04.
The initial problem: I was trying to run a "make" and got errors like:
/usr/include/sys/cdefs.h:453:10: fatal error: bits/long-double.h: No such file or directory
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udev rule for similar devices
I'm struggling in creation of udev rules for some similar devices (serial USB port).
Here the output of the detail from one of them:
$ udevadm info --name=/dev/ttyACM0 --attribute-walk
Udevadm info ...
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"Unable To Initialize Installer" when using a softlink
I've installed LAMP in ubuntu.
At the directory it was installed, I can start the GUI if I use
sudo ./manager-linux-x64.run
However, if I create a softlink for this file:
then I am getting the ...
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Symlinks copy to Samba via gvfs is not working
I use default app of Ubuntu 20.04 - Files. I use it for Samba connection. I propose that connection use gvfs. Also I use Ubuntu Desktop and Ubuntu Server.
My problem is that I try to copy some ...
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inotifywait not detecting links
I have successfully created a watcher for modifications inside a directory, recursively:
inotifywait -m -r -e modify --format '%w%f' "$Path" | while read File
do
echo "File $File is ...
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Creating a symlink for docker-volumes to another directory
For reasons I need to symlink /var/lib/docker/volumes into /net/datadisc/disc1/docker_volumes, i.e. ever volume that docker creates inside /var/lib/docker/volumes would instead be created in /net/...
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SFTP read-only access to another directory
My Goal:
I have sftp user sftp1 which has chrootdir to /sftp/sftp1.
I want to add read-only access via sftp to user sftp1 on directory which is /home/user2/some/path/to/directory
Expected result:
User ...
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Add mounts/symlinks into snap automatically
I use several symlinks in my root directory usually pointing somewhere into /home directory. I can keep projects organized in directories, but I still have quick (terminal) access to them.
e.g.:
/g -&...
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How do I find the package providing an alias?
Using apt-file I am able to find the packages providing certain executables like this for example:
sudo apt-file search {/bin,/sbin,/usr/bin/,/usr/sbin}/wget
Well actually:
sudo apt-file search {/bin,...
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Snap applications - cannot create user data directory (home bind mounted)
I have my home folder on another drive, which is mounted via fstab to /mnt/HDD
UUID=123 /mnt/HDD exfat rw,defaults,umask=002,uid=1000,gid=1000,auto,users,exec 0 0
The home folder is then bind mounted ...
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Apache2 symlink - How to use target name and MIME type
I just set up an Apache2 server and it works fine. Since this server purpose is to simply serve versioned files, I created a latest symlink which targets e.g. myfile_v1.1.0.ext.
The problem is that ...
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How can I create a desktop Symlink to a Google Drive sub-folder?
I would like to create a symlink on my desktop to a folder within google drive.
I have already added Google Drive as a Nautilus window sidebar bookmark & I found it is also possible to drag sub-...
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How to create a shadow directory
I want to create a shadow directory of a directory D. The shadow directory D1 should have the same structure as D, but should not share any nodes with D. Each file in D should be represented by a ...
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gnome-control-center won't load in Ubuntu 20
After upgrading to Ubuntu 20.04, my gnome-control-center no longer loads due to a symbol lookup error:
$ gnome-control-center
gnome-control-center: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/...
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Can I keep a folder read by an application in a different location, and use a symbolic link in the original?
I have a folder SOURCE using by application.
I want to move this folder in a new location without config the new path in the application. So logically, the application read from the source folder but ...
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move any writes from one directory in filesystem type to another directory in filesystem type
say for example I've a directory /abc/123/tmpdir on ext4/xfs or may be any other file system type.
If I've to mount above directory onto a different directory something like - /xyz/321/tmpdir on a zfs ...
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Can we just use symbolic link instead of 'mount --bind'?
Recently I came to know about the mount --bind command but there is something that I can't understand clearly. Suppose I have a disk partition and I mounted it to a mount point /bkup using this ...
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Safely remove directory with unknown contents
I have a directory /usr/local/foo, which I need to remove.
This is going to be part of a script, which needs to be run as root.
I'm mainly worried that the directory, which contains things that users ...
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linker cannot find a package that is already installed
I am trying to follow instructions for installation of FAST-DDS on Ubuntu 18.04. During make -j$(nproc --all),I get this error
[ 4%] Built target fastcdr
[ 5%] Linking CXX shared library libfastrtps....
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Samba symlink to a local windows directory
I've just finished moving the majority of my files from my Windows machines, to a new central Ubuntu, ZFS NAS.
Before I made this move, my Windows PC games used to live on a HDD, mounted as G:\ on my ...
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Cannot access udev symlink with python serial immediately on startup
I have configured a udev rule to create a symlink for a USB device:
SUBSYSTEM=="tty", ATTRS{idVendor}=="3032", ATTRS{idProduct}=="0014", SYMLINK+="ttyUSB_GPS"
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Symbolic link from Nas to home folder
I'm trying to create a link from my unraid Nas to my Ubuntu vm that I have running in it but ever time I make it the link says its broken and wants me to remove it
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create a sym link from a folder content to another directory
I have a Ubuntu server running in a virtualized environment for my web development activities. The host OS is sharing with Ubuntu a folder with this path:
/media/psf/Sites
and this folder Sites ...
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Created symlink over directory
I wanted /usr/bin/local to symlink to /home/jonas/swift-5.3.3-RELEASE-ubuntu20.04/usr/bin/swift, so I entered the following command:
sudo ln -s swift-5.3.3-RELEASE-ubuntu20.04/usr/bin/swift /usr/bin/...
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