Need help with Ubuntu Feisty Fawn

[Dorkenstein]

I was looking for a way to open a root terminal at my current directory because I am trying to run a gz installer for my creative sound drivers. I read at certain forums that you can get nautilus scripts for that but they have to be copied into the nautilus scripts directory. I can't find that anywhere. Can anyone help me with this? Each roadblock needs a solution. And yes, I have windows installed also but I am trying to experiment with linux. Thanks.

 

[Robor]

All you need to do is 'su' to a privileged account. To do that type the command 'su' on the command line and you'll be prompted for *your* (not root) password. Once you enter that you'll have root privileges.

 

[Brazen]

Are you especially wanting it to open in your current directory? Personally, I wouldn't mess with it and just open a terminal and use 'su' (as Robor described) and then use 'cd' to get to the directory.

Sorry I can't answer your question about Nautilus scripts though. I'm addicted to Linux's command line and usually use it over gui tools even when they are available.

 

[Robor]

I thought I would mention that Feisty Fawn is the 'old' version of Ubuntu. Are you aware that Gutsy Gibbon 7.10 came out in October of this year?

 

[Brazen]

lucky for you, my pal Google knew the answer: ~.gnome/nautilus-scripts
(the ~ means your home directory)

I got that from here: http://g-scripts.sourceforge.net/faq.php
Apparently, that site also has a handy-dandy application that will automanglically dump scripts into the Nautilus script directory.

 

[Brazen]

Originally posted by: Robor
I thought I would mention that Feisty Fawn is the 'old' version of Ubuntu. Are you aware that Gutsy Gibbon 7.10 came out in October of this year?

Are you aware that I've had problems with Gutsy and therefore it sucks?

Seriously though, I have had problems on a test install of Gutsy (of the final version) so I'm sticking with Feisty on my laptop.

[soapbox]
Of course, I use only LTS releases on my servers, which is currently Dapper.
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[Robor]

Originally posted by: Brazen

Originally posted by: Robor
I thought I would mention that Feisty Fawn is the 'old' version of Ubuntu. Are you aware that Gutsy Gibbon 7.10 came out in October of this year?

Are you aware that I've had problems with Gutsy and therefore it sucks?

Seriously though, I have had problems on a test install of Gutsy (of the final version) so I'm sticking with Feisty on my laptop.

[soapbox]
Of course, I use only LTS releases on my servers, which is currently Dapper.
[/soapbox]

I wouldn't say Gutsy sucks but I'll admit that it's been very frustrating in regard to Firefox and web sites freezing the browser. It's to the point where I will not even try to play any multimedia stuff anymore. Of course Firefox crashed in Feisty too but then at least it had the decency to slam closed rather than just hang and make me force quit it. 😉

 

[xSauronx]

Originally posted by: Robor

Originally posted by: Brazen

Originally posted by: Robor
I thought I would mention that Feisty Fawn is the 'old' version of Ubuntu. Are you aware that Gutsy Gibbon 7.10 came out in October of this year?

Are you aware that I've had problems with Gutsy and therefore it sucks?

Seriously though, I have had problems on a test install of Gutsy (of the final version) so I'm sticking with Feisty on my laptop.

[soapbox]
Of course, I use only LTS releases on my servers, which is currently Dapper.
[/soapbox]

I wouldn't say Gutsy sucks but I'll admit that it's been very frustrating in regard to Firefox and web sites freezing the browser. It's to the point where I will not even try to play any multimedia stuff anymore. Of course Firefox crashed in Feisty too but then at least it had the decency to slam closed rather than just hang and make me force quit it. 😉

ive noticed this as well, and have switched (mostly) to opera. flash support in linux doesnt seem to be too grand, however, which can be annoying at times.

Originally posted by: Brazen
lucky for you, my pal Google knew the answer: ~.gnome/nautilus-scripts
(the ~ means your home directory)

I got that from here: http://g-scripts.sourceforge.net/faq.php
Apparently, that site also has a handy-dandy application that will automanglically dump scripts into the Nautilus script directory.

my pal "locate" knew the answer as well. for someone addicted to the cli im surprised you googled it first

locate script |grep nautilus

i :heart: locate