Dreamcard under Mandrake Linux 10.1

[Frank D. Engel, Jr.]

On Nov 16, 2004, at 4:26 AM, Emmanuel Yves wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> I'm French and new user of Dreamcard that I have discovered and bought 
> the past week.
>
> I have installed it on Linux Mandrake 10.1 with the rpm built and it 
> works perfectly.
>
> Yet, I have a small problem :
>
> Since Dreamcard is installed is installed in the /opt directory, and 
> when I launch it as a single user (not root), I can't create *.rev 
> files under /opt/Revolution_dreamcard but only in my home directory 
> (/home/emmanuel etc...).

Yes, and this is generally a good thing.  In a multiuser system, 
allowing users to write into these common directories is asking for 
trouble.  Since UNIX (and therefore Linux) is designed to easily 
support multiple users, allowing users to write into this directory is 
a bad idea.

>
> So, have I to modify the writable rights of this directory so that rev 
> files may be written in this directory ?

If you *really* want to do this, and there won't be a problem with 
other users of the system (or there are no other users of the system), 
you can do this from the terminal (note you must execute these commands 
as root):

This allows all users of the system to write to the directory and all 
of its subdirectories:

chmod -R ugo+w /opt/Revolution_dreamcard

Alternately, this changes the owner of the directory and its contents 
to <username>, and ensures that the owner of the directory can write to 
it:

chown -R <username> /opt/Revolution_dreamcard
chmod u+w /opt/Revolution_dreamcard


>
> Another question :
>
> In order to launch Dreamcard, I have to be placed into 
> /opt/Revolution_dreamcard, and I don't know which command would allow 
> me to launch it from, for instance, /home/emmanuel in a terminal ? 
> Have I to create a link towards the executable Revolution_dreamcard.sh 
> ?

No, you just need to specify the full path to the binary.  I don't have 
Rev for Linux, so fill in the rest of the name here, but if (for 
example) the binary is stored in /opt/Revolution_dreamcard, and is 
named Revolution_dreamcard, then start the program with the command:

/opt/Revolution_dreamcard/Revolution_dreamcard


Alternately, add the directory containing the binary file to your path. 
  This depends on the shell you are using; the default under Mandrake 
should be bash (which is my own preference as well); do this:

export PATH=$PATH:/opt/Revolution_dreamcard

You will need to do that each time you open a terminal window unless 
you add the line to .profile or .bash_profile in your home directory 
(note the dot at the start of the filename -- that will cause the files 
to be hidden in most cases.)

>
> Finally, I think Dreamcard (and Revolution) are very good products, 
> but French users lack of a good documentation in their language. I 
> hope there will be one.

Can't help here -- I type in several languages (Transcript, Pascal, 
Ada, BASIC, Java...), but I only speak one ;-)

>
> Thank you very much beforehand
>
> Cordially
>
>               M. Emmanuel YVES
>
>
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Frank D. Engel, Jr.  <fde101 at fjrhome.net>

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