[clue-tech] Missing Synaptic [was Re: Grab your coat, it'sstill on!]

[David L. Willson]

Too funny.  In the first attempt, you changed my ~ to a -.  Then, in the second one, you put in a $ at the beginning of the line, but you put the ~ in correctly!  If only you had NOT put in the $ ~and~ left the ~ as is, you would have gotten the intended result.

BTW: '~' is a bashonym for your home folder, and '$' at the beginning of a command in a document means you may run the following command as anyone, even a non-root user, as opposed to '#' which means you must run this command as root.

David L. Willson
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----- "WILLIAM PATTERSON+I*I SMITH" <wpsmithii at msn.com> wrote:

> [bill at localhost ~]$ tail --lines=20 -/.xsessions-errors
> tail: invalid option -- '/'
> Try `tail --help' for more information.
> [bill at localhost ~]$ $ tail --lines=20 ~/.xsession-errors
> bash: $: command not found
> [bill at localhost ~]$
> 
> 
> 
> > Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:41:29 -0700
> > From: DLWillson at TheGeek.NU
> > To: clue-tech at cluedenver.org
> > Subject: Re: [clue-tech] Missing Synaptic [was Re: Grab your coat,
> it'sstill on!]
> >
> > > Immediately after trying the menu item, look at the last 20 or so
> > > lines
> > > of ~/.xsession-errors
> > >
> >
> > > How do I do that, Jed?
> >
> > $ tail --lines=20 ~/.xsession-errors
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