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Sorry, to clarify:<br>
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Type "cd /home/pi/Desktop/Python\ programs" to make LXTerminal
understand that there's a space in the path.<br>
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I was typing the reply on my phone and hit send before I meant to,
so thought I'd clarify =)<br>
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Cheers<br>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 20/10/13 20:45, james snyder wrote:<br>
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<div style="font-size:13px">Re: GPIO</div>
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<div style="font-size:13px;background-color:transparent">Some
new students need help running a GPIO system on a model B
raspberry pi running Raspberian Linux, so I am forwarding
this message to our KLUG group mailing list on their
behalf....</div>
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<div style="font-size:13px;background-color:transparent">"We
have connected the motor and battery to the GPIO RPi . </div>
<div style="font-size:13px;background-color:transparent">We
have saved a Python program (developed using the Python
Shell) in : </div>
<div style="font-size:13px;background-color:transparent">/home/pi/Desktop/Python
programs</div>
<div style="font-size:13px;background-color:transparent">If
we click on: Python programs, we see the file: motor.py</div>
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style="font-style:normal;font-size:13px;background-color:transparent;font-family:'times
new roman','new york',times,serif">
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<div
style="font-style:normal;font-size:13px;background-color:transparent;font-family:'times
new roman','new york',times,serif"><span
style="background-color:transparent">The problem is</span></div>
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style="font-style:normal;font-size:13px;background-color:transparent;font-family:'times
new roman','new york',times,serif">
<span style="background-color:transparent"><br>
</span></div>
<div
style="font-style:normal;font-size:13px;background-color:transparent;font-family:'times
new roman','new york',times,serif"><span
style="background-color:transparent">when we open
LXTerminal we type: </span><br>
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<div style="font-size:13px;background-color:transparent">cd
/home/pi/Desktop/Python programs (is where our motor.py
is)</div>
<div style="font-size:13px;background-color:transparent">We get
the error message</div>
<div style="font-size:13px;background-color:transparent">"No
such file or directory"</div>
<div style="font-size:13px;background-color:transparent"><br>
</div>
<div
style="font-style:normal;font-size:13px;background-color:transparent;font-family:'times
new roman','new york',times,serif"><span
style="background-color:transparent">We have formatted
another Raspberian SD Card from scratch.</span></div>
<div style="font-size:13px;background-color:transparent"><br>
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<div
style="font-style:normal;font-size:13px;background-color:transparent;font-family:'times
new roman','new york',times,serif">
In order to make our motor to work we need to use
LXTerminal to find a directory where we have saved our
file, and once we are <span
style="background-color:transparent">in the directory
we have to run the command: sudo python motor.py
to start our motor but LXTerminal says "No such file""</span></div>
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style="font-style:normal;font-size:13px;background-color:transparent;font-family:'times
new roman','new york',times,serif"><span
style="background-color:transparent"><br>
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style="font-style:normal;font-size:13px;background-color:transparent;font-family:'times
new roman','new york',times,serif">
Without actually seeing the system, based on the above
log, any thoughts on what the problem is here?</div>
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-- <br>
<div>James Snyder</div>
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