[Elecraft] Firmware upgrades using Ubuntu 12.04

[Bill K9YEQ]

Perhaps I missed it, but I am thinking we would rather have a simple GUI
with easier commands?  I for one have no clue for programming but use Ubuntu
and shorter versions of Linux which don't require the programming language
which leaves me in a lurch.  There is so much to know, so little time. Let
the devotees do the GUI for the mere mortals to use.  I use Puppy off a USB
stick and it is so simple... just like me.  NOT.  :=#

73,
Bill
K9YEQ


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Sent: Saturday, July 07, 2012 1:51 PM
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Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Firmware upgrades using Ubuntu 12.04

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

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