How to access a folder through the terminal
I'm trying to follow this answer in getting my wireless to work. However I'm incredibly new at the whole Linux thing, and there is a part in there that I really just don't understand:
Go to your main extracted folder (It should be the DPO_RT3290_LinuxSTA_V2600_20120508 folder) and type the following:
make sudo make install
When he says "Go to", does he mean go to the file window? Wen I'm there and type "make" and hit Enter, it just opens up the file. How exactly am I supposed to make this thing work? What he is trying to say? I really just don't get it. Can somebody help me to understand this, so I can get my wireless working.
These should be done in the Terminal
Press Ctrl+Alt+T. This will open the Terminal.
Go To: Means you should access the folder where the extracted file is in, through Terminal.
This cam be done with command,
cd [ dir ]
[ dir ]: Directory Path
To find the Directory Path,
Right-Click the file. Right-Click Menu will appear.
Then select the Properties Option in the Right-Click Menu
Then the Properties Window appear.
Go to the Basic Tab of it.
In the Location field, There is the Directory Path.
Ex: /home/YOUR NAME/Downloads
So the command will be:
$ cd /home/YOUR NAME/Downloads
In order to paste the "file path" (i.e. /home/YOUR NAME/Downloads) into the terminal use CTRL + SHIFT + V (or right click in the terminal and paste click paste - don't forget to add the 'cd' at the start of the line).
Other easy method that you can do is :
In Terminal, type
cd
and make a space infrotThen Drag and Drop the folder from the file browser to the Terminal
Then Press Enter
Then you need to Enter make
and sudo make install
commands, one by one.
$ make
$ sudo make install
-
Press ctrl+alt+t.It will open gnome terminal,Then run the below commands to install nautilus-open-terminal.
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install nautilus-open-terminal nautilus -q
Then close the terminal.
- Open the extracted folder
DPO_RT3290_LinuxSTA_V2600_20120508
.Thenright-click
inside theDPO_RT3290_LinuxSTA_V2600_20120508
folder.There you find an optionopen in terminal
,select it.
-
A new terminal will open,in that terminal run the following commands,
make sudo make install