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Originally Posted by avantman42
The bin folder you can see in screenshot 001 is at /bin. That's the system-wide bin folder, and you'd need root* permissions to write anything in it.
You can create a bin folder in /home/gregory. It's just another folder, so create it as you would any other, and call it "bin".
Russ
*"root" is the system administrator account.
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That was it, Russ. Thanks. And thanks for the root thing. I still need to learn about that stuff.
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Originally Posted by arjaybe
eschwartz might be suggesting that you create a /bin directory in your home directory (/home/gregg) because there isn't one there by default.
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Thanks rjb. Created the bin folder there and it worked.
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Originally Posted by eschwartz
Indeed I am.
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??? Getting a little cryptic, are we?
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Originally Posted by eschwartz
Sorry if I wasn't more clear -- if you create a folder called "bin" in your user folder (so it will be at "/home/gregory/bin/") you can put programs there which will be automatically sensed, see here for details: http://askubuntu.com/questions/9848/...rsonal-scripts
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I got it! <shaking head> It seems so easy now. I remember using Kindlegen in Windows and it was like entering Einstein's theory of relativity. This was, like you said, kindlegen filename and presto! So much easier than Kindle Previewer! Pretty thrilling. Thanks!