[HelpDesk] LDRAW linux x86 libraries

[James Reynolds]

I just downloaded it and the ldraw folder name is uppercase.  The  
versions I have on my hard disk are lowercase, but I might have  
changed them manually.  I believe this is just an oversight and *nix  
ignorance ;) so yeah either the download needs to be changed to  
lowercase or the instructions need to be modified.

Either way, I would probably remove the -p arg for mkdir, as that is  
what created the lowercase ldraw folder on your system.  Without the - 
p arg, it would have given an error the that folder "ldraw" doesn't  
exist (which wouldn't have happened if the instructions were correct/ 
the download was lowercase).

And the need for 777 is up to whatever app you use.  I know some old  
Mac Ldraw editors freaked out if they couldn't write to the folder.   
I complained and they fixed them so I could use the umask 022.

So to fix your problem, you can rm -r ldraw and either change the  
case of LDRAW (mv LDRAW ldraw) or change the instructions you have to  
use uppercase LDRAW.  I really don't know what is best for you  
because I don't know what the Linux apps you use will require.

James

On Sep 30, 2006, at 1:43 PM, Jedi wrote:

> Michiel Orion or James (on this email) may be able to help you out  
> as I only handle the Windows based issues with LDraw.  (Sorry about  
> my ignorance of LINUX). =(
>
> -Ahui
> LDraw Help Desk
>
> "Michiel P.H. van Wessem" <michiel.van.wessem at gmail.com> wrote:
> hello there,
>
> I have just downloaded the libraries from ldraw.org for my linux  
> system. Is it
> normal that the all files in the archive are read-write-executable for
> everyone (777 across the board).
>
> Also the manual instrall instructions talk about the following steps:
>
> root# mkdir -p ldraw/bitmap
> root# chmod a+w ldraw/bitmap
>
> this leads to the following result on my system:
> drwxrwxrwx 7 root root 4096 2006-01-05 03:02 LDRAW/
> drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2006-09-30 13:13 ldraw/
>
> where LDRAW is from the archive and ldraw as per instructions.
>
> Is this normal? or is there some kind of problem with the archive  
> (permissions
> && filenames)
>
> thanks
>
> Michiel
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