[Xastir] Loading Maps on Xubuntu - Xastir-Hardy_090307

[Tom Hayward]

> My understanding is there is no way to turn off that permission within the
> GUI.  Is there a way within the shell?  I have 19GB of maps to copy into the
> map folder, doing it one file at a time, would onerous.   I am trying to
> find the simplest way to do it.

Personally, I would do it with the shell because I am most comfortable
there. Here's how:

sudo chmod -R a+rw /usr/local/share/xastir/maps/
cp YOUR_MAP_FOLDER/* /usr/local/share/xastir/maps/

That will give everyone read and write permissions to everything in
the xastir map directory, then copy everything from your map folder to
the xastir map folder (all at once, not one at a time).


Okay, so you want to do it with the GUI. I'm not familiar with
Xubuntu. These instructions are for normal Ubuntu with Gnome (no idea
if this will be the same in Xubuntu):

Alt-F2 (launches run command GUI)
Type "gksu nautilus" and click run/ok (this will run nautilus, the
file browser, as root)

Now you should be able to do root commands with the GUI. But this only
applies to standard Ubuntu. Hope I'm not confusing you here. The
reason this is difficult to do is by design--you can break stuff if
you accidentally move or delete system files while running as root. Be
careful.


Tom KD7LXL