[Xastir] Loading Maps on Xubuntu - Xastir-Hardy_090307

[Tom Russo]

On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 09:22:35PM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <nwsnowboarder at verizon.net> flavor, containing:
> I appreciate the extremely fast response, but I am not quite that technical.
> 
> 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.

>From a shell:

 cd into directory containing maps
 sudo cp * /usr/local/share/xastir/maps


If the directory containing maps contains subdirectories:

 cd into directory containing maps
 sudo cp -r * /usr/local/share/xastir/maps

The -r copies files and subdirectories (it stands for "recursive").

> Tom Russo wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 08:55:39PM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <nwsnowboarder at verizon.net> flavor, containing:
> >   
> >> I am attempting to install the maps for Washington and Oregon in Xubuntu 
> >> and I can't copy them into the map folder because the permissions are 
> >> not correct to allow read/write access.
> >>
> >> The owner is root
> >>
> >> Anyone know the password? Yea I tried root
> >>     
> >
> > Login to the root account is typically disabled on ubuntu systems.  All
> > the stuff you'd do by "su root" or logging in as root is instead done with
> > "sudo" (e.g. "sudo cp file1.shp /usr/local/share/xastir/maps/junk/").
> >
> > The Xastir-Hardy virtual machine is set up that way, with the "xubuntu" user
> > as one of the allowed "sudoers."
> >
> > Sudo prompts you for a password.  The password is the one for the xubuntu 
> > account.
> >
> > See "man sudo" for details.
> >
> >   

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