tuxtrans 16.04

[peter.s...@uibk.ac.at]

Hi,

tuxtrans 16.04 is available now.
it is a 64bit release with UEFI support: please verify your UEFI-BIOS settings.
Test it and send your comments to this group!

regards
Peter

[Jeroen (Sophro)]

Hi Peter,

I downloaded the iso and installed it in a virtual box (inside Win8.1). Even though I already have been using a boxed Ubuntu system (<http://ubuntu-mate.org/>), my Linux experience/expertise is very limited. I mainly use the Linux box (now boxes) as a safer way to surf and search the web. Still, for my next PC, in five years or so, I am thinking of reversing the set-up: i.e. have a Linux OS with virtual Windows.

Anyway, I have not had the opportunity to test-drive the tuxtrans translation-related software itself yet, I'm still ironing out some niggles.
One rather annoying thing is a warning that consistently pops up a few seconds after logging in: 'Configured directory for incoming files does not exist – Please make sure that directory "/home/tuxtrans/downloads" exists or configure it with blueman-services'.
I have tried looking for these "blueman-services" but even in the online Xubuntu manual there is no reference to it. Googling seems to indicate that it may be something Bluetooth-related but was no further help either. Also I tried to simply create that directory, but in spite of the fact that my account has Administrator rights, the "create folder" command is grayed out when I use the file manager to go to "home". The owner of "home" is root and apparently he's the boss and he won't let me in :-)
I may not even need that folder, in which case I would like to find a way to get rid of the rather annoying warning.

Could you help me out here? Or is this not the forum for questions like this? (And if not, could you point me to a more appropriate venue?)

Many thanks in anticipation.

Jeroen

[Anthony Baldwin]

On Fri, 27 May 2016 02:57:40 -0700 (PDT)

"Jeroen (Sophro)" <googl...@sophronius.com> wrote:

> Hi Peter,

> 

> Anyway, I have not had the opportunity to test-drive the tuxtrans 

> translation-related software itself yet, I'm still ironing out some niggles.

> One rather annoying thing is a warning that consistently pops up a few 

> seconds after logging in: 'Configured directory for incoming files does not 

> exist – Please make sure that directory "/home/tuxtrans/downloads" exists 

> or configure it with blueman-services'.

Let´s try this, Jeroen:

Open a terminal (xterm, or whatever the default terminal is, I don´t know since I´m not using Tuxtrans at this time. in most environments, Ctrl-F2, or alt/mod1-F2 usually opens a terminal if you don´t know where to find it in the menus).

Then type these commands:

$ cd home ( do not type the $).

$ sudo mkdir  -pv tuxtrans/downloads

(enter your password)

Let us know how that works out, or if you have further questions

Tony

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[peter.s...@uibk.ac.at]

Hi,

I have never seen this error message before.
Anyway, the download directory is called /home/tuxtrans/Downloads with a capitalized D, and it should be there by default. But if some other application is looking for a directory downloads, you can create it as Tony said. The keyboard shortcut for the terminal in tuxtrans is Win T , or you may use TuxCommander and start it as root by pressing ALT F2 and then entering gksu tuxcmd.

Peter

[Jeroen (Sophro)]

Hi Tony and Peter,

Thanks very much for the tips.
@Peter: maybe the Download-folder was not there because of something specific to do with the installation procedure in the VirtualBox? I re-checked. The only subfolder to home is jeroen (which in turn does have several subfolders, of which Downloads is one, so maybe that is where it got put?)

By the way, this is really taking me back to the days of doodling with batch-files in ms-dos (my first steps in computing were way back in 1985-86, when the command-line was all there was). [I suddenly realize this reference to ms-dos must sound a little sacrilegious in a Linux/Unix context :-) ]

OK.

So I open a terminal.
<quoting terminal – where necessary translating from Dutch (my locale) to English>
jeroen@tuxtrans16:~$ cd home
bash: cd: home: file or folder does not exist
<endquote>

I then tried:
jeroen@tuxtrans16:~$ cd /home
jeroen@tuxtrans16:/home$

This looked more promising, but now I'm getting a little worried I may not be at the right level in the directory tree. So I also open the File Manager window, to see what happens there. To check whether I am where I want to be, I do a list command.

jeroen@tuxtrans16:/home$ ls
jeroen
jeroen@tuxtrans16:/home$


And as jeroen is indeed the only subfolder of home I can see in the file manager window, I assume I am at the correct location in the tree. (I confirmed this, after a quick consultation of "Linux for Dummies", using the pwd command.)

Anyway, on with the directory creating. I typed in Tony's command (changing the d to D in the folder name, thanks for the heads-up, Peter)
jeroen@tuxtrans16:/home$ sudo mkdir -pv tuxtrans/Downloads
had to enter my pw and I suddenly had an uncle Robert (checked and confirmed using the file manager window again).

Thanks guys!
(I restarted the virtual box and no more warning. Goody!)

Just two follow-up questions, if I may:
- what exactly does the -pv option in the mdir command stand for?
- I also tried out Peter's <ALT-F2 gksu tuxcmd>-route, and that is probably the easier route to root-commandlining, but again I am a little curious to know what the gk in gksu stands for - on the general principle that mnemonics are easier to use if you actually know what they mean :-)

In any case, many thanks for the quick and expert response.

Best regards,

Jeroen