accessing the root directory from unity in ubuntu 12.04?

[Hank Smith]

Hello I am trying to install my voxin tts engin and need to copy it to 
the main directory of my root in ubuntu 12.04how do I find this using unity?
I don't see a my places unity equivolent.
Hank

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