[ubuntu-za] MOVING A FILE USING MV?

[Vincent Williams]

On Friday 29 May 2009 11:41:04 vincent wrote:
> I've downloaded a file, "wine_gecko-0.1.0.cab" to my desktop & am now
> trying to move it to /usr/share//wine/gecko/
>
> According to the instructions from sourceforge I need to
> mkdir  /usr/share/wine/gecko which I've done & then
> mv wine_gecko-0.1.0.cab /usr/share/wine/gecko/
>
> As root I've done step 1 successfully & created the directory, however
> every time I try to mv I get an error message as follows:
> "mv:  cannot stat 'wine_gecko-0.1.0.cab' : no such file or directory" & yet
> it's laying there looking at me on the desktop!
>
> I'm using 8.04.2. Help please.

Are you in your desktop directory when you issue the mv command?
Otherwise you have to specify /yourhomedir/Desktop/wine_gecko...

Cheers,
Vincent