On Tue, 04 Jan 2005 18:43:35 +0100, Tobias Neumann <tobias.neumann@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 04 Jan 2005 08:37:04 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > > > Humm...OK, I know I'm not much of a Linux guy but I'm now confused. On > > my system, before doing any of this link stuff the directory > > /usr/local/bin already exists. How can I create a link of any type at > > location /usr/local called 'bin' when the directory already exists? > > Firstly /usr/local/bin/ is a directory. > When you link a file with ln -s <sourcefile/directory> <destination-dir> > an link with exactly the same name as the sourcefile/directory will be > created in the destination directory. > > So `ln -s /usr/local/winetools/findwine /usr/local/bin` will create a link > from /usr/local/bin/findwine to /usr/local/winetools/findwine. Except it didn't on my FC2 system as the error message showed earlier... And why not be explicit in the instruction anyway? ln -s /usr/local/winetools/findwine /usr/local/bin/findwine No problems with that one. I think the command was too cleaver by half... _______________________________________________ wine-users mailing list wine-users@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-users
