[Wolves] Suse

[Peter Cannon]

Cheers Dave

Looks like the schematics for the space shuttle so I'll try it tonight
at home and let you know the result tomorrow.
 
On Thu, 2004-03-18 at 10:16, David Goodwin wrote:
> Try :
> 
> cd $destinationDirectoryForSymLink
> 
> ln -s $pathToTheSourceFile $destinationFile
> 
> e.g.
> 
> cd /usr/local/apps/mozilla/current/plugins
> 
> ln -s /usr/local/apps/flash/current/libflashplayer.so libflashplayer.so
> 
> Creates a symlink in /usr/local/apps/mozilla/current/plugins which links 
> to the file in /usr/local/apps/flash/current/libflashplayer.so
> 
> 
> The last filename can be ommitted, if you wish to keep the name of the 
> file the same - so :
> 
> ln -s /usr/local/apps/flash/current/libflashplayer.so
> 
> would create a symlink called libflashplayer.so pointing to 
> /usr/local/apps/flash/current/libflashplayer.so
> 
> 
> You can also use relative path names :
> 
> e.g.
> 
> ln -s ../../../../flash/libflashplayer.so
> 
> When ever I try creating symlinks outside of the destination directory 
> they tend to go wrong, unless you use the full paths, so I generally 
> don't bother (one less thing to break etc.).
> 
> (You can obviously link directories too, I've just used a file in my 
> examples above)
> 
> 
> Didn't really read your other email properly, but the above might help.
> 
> 
> thanks,
> 
> David.
> 
> 
> 
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Regards

Peter Cannon

peter at cannon-linux.freeserve.co.uk