[Elecraft] Firmware upgrades using Ubuntu 12.04

[Kevin]

Nothing cryptic about it.

"sudo" allows users temporary "admin" or root user privi's to the system 
to run commands or install software. When any user invokes sudo they 
will be required to authenticate with user name and password.

"chmod" is a *nix<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIX_shell> command that 
lets a user tell the system how much (or little) access it should permit 
to a file or program.^<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chmod#cite_note-0> 
It changes the file system modes of files and directories. The modes 
include permissions.

The 666 is octal notation for granting users, groups, and "others" read, 
write, and execute permissions to the USB filesystem.

"install apt-get" is a command used in all Debian based Linux distro's 
to install software *and all known dependencies*. The program 
automatically downloads and installs software from the Debian/Ubuntu 
repositories along with dependencies and installs it.

In this case it installed the program cURL.


On 07/07/2012 11:56 AM, Brian Alsop wrote:
> I hope all versions of Ubuntu come with a super decoder ring so that
> mortals can make sense of these obviously encrypted commands.
>
> 73 de Brian/K3KO
>


-- 
R. Kevin Stover
AC0H