[CS-FSLUG] Another chapter in my transition to Linux saga

[Josiah Ritchie]

On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 17:53 -0500, JD Runyan wrote:
> Ruth Marlene Friesen wrote:
> > I was just trying out something named SSH last night to upload pages to my 
> > site, and I had to back out as I couldn't figure out how to use it. Can you 
> > give me a 101 lesson in a paragraph or two?
> 
> Good for you, SSH will provide you with a secure  method to transfer 
> your files to the webserver. I suggest you open konqueror, and then type 
> in the address bar "sftp://<webhostname>" replacing <webhostname> with 
> your web server. It should prompt you  for login information. You  may 
> still have to adjust permissions, but you will  be able to use konqueror 
> to do  that.
> 
> > It has taken me two days to figure out how to download Firefox and give it the 
> > right install commands. But it doesn't show up anywhere to open yet. Do I 
> > need to reboot first?
> 
> No windows thinking now. Firefox does not install an icon of its own. 
> You will need to run it manually. hitting 'alt+f2' should bring up a run 
> dialog box. type '/opt/firefox/firefox' in the box, and see if it runs. 
> If you know that you installed someplace other than /opt, then use that 
> instead. You can create a launcher(icon) for firefox in KDE using your 
> right click. You will have to choose create link to application or 
> something similar.

At the commandline, 'which firefox' or 'locate firefox' should show you
the location of the program. 'which' only looks in $PATH, but 'locate'
looks at a record of everything in the filesystem.

JSR/