Okay.... some of my old computer programming skills are slowly recalling themselves to me. At least, a lot of the terminal stuff seems familiar, and I'm pretty sure it's from back when I took programming in high school and when I was using the DOS prompt on our first IBM compatible. BUT.
*sigh*
On the website, you have this:
mv Gleam-0.1.tar.gz ${HOME}/.themes cd ${HOME}/.themes tar xzvf Gleam-0.1.tar.gz
Which, the first line works great. It moves it to the .themes directory. But then when I try the second line, I get this:
bash: cd: .themes: Not a directory
And that's all the further I can go. I can see the .themes when I do the "ls -a" command, but it tells me it's not a directory, and won't let me get any further. I can't seem to get beyond this, and consulting the two Linux books I brought home, and doing web searches, aren't helping me.
>.<
Just what you wanted, to become my personal Linux troubleshooter, huh? Do you have any idea what I'm doing wrong?
(And this reminds me why I didn't go on with any further computer programming classes. I got terribly frustrated when I was certain I had done everything properly, but it still didn't work. But goodness, when it did work, I loved it so much... I want to be able to work in the terminal. I'm already planning to introduce my dad to Linux, since he has an Associate's Degree from the 90s in computer programming. He seems to miss all his C+ and BASIC stuff, and I'll bet he would get into this!)
Um, anyway. >.< All this trouble to prettify things. LOL
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*sigh*
On the website, you have this:
mv Gleam-0.1.tar.gz ${HOME}/.themes
cd ${HOME}/.themes
tar xzvf Gleam-0.1.tar.gz
Which, the first line works great. It moves it to the .themes directory. But then when I try the second line, I get this:
bash: cd: .themes: Not a directory
And that's all the further I can go. I can see the .themes when I do the "ls -a" command, but it tells me it's not a directory, and won't let me get any further. I can't seem to get beyond this, and consulting the two Linux books I brought home, and doing web searches, aren't helping me.
>.<
Just what you wanted, to become my personal Linux troubleshooter, huh? Do you have any idea what I'm doing wrong?
(And this reminds me why I didn't go on with any further computer programming classes. I got terribly frustrated when I was certain I had done everything properly, but it still didn't work. But goodness, when it did work, I loved it so much... I want to be able to work in the terminal. I'm already planning to introduce my dad to Linux, since he has an Associate's Degree from the 90s in computer programming. He seems to miss all his C+ and BASIC stuff, and I'll bet he would get into this!)
Um, anyway. >.< All this trouble to prettify things. LOL