PTA Linux Series Copyright Professional Training Academy, CSIS, University of Limerick, 2006 © Workshop II Transferable Skills & Common Tasks Professional Training Academy Linux Series

PTA Linux Series Copyright Professional Training Academy, CSIS, University of Limerick, 2006 © Demonstration: Logging In/Out You should always log in with your normal login account and not the root account e.g. ict Each account on a Linux computer has its own home directory The root account is equivalent to the administrator account on windows. This is a privileged account which can install hardware and software for all other accounts Using the root account when not installing hardware/software can cause security risks as this account has privileges over all other accounts Always remember to shutdown your Linux computer correctly. Turning off the power directly can damage your filesystem

PTA Linux Series Copyright Professional Training Academy, CSIS, University of Limerick, 2006 © Demonstration: Web Browsers Firefox is one of the most popular browsers on all platforms (Mozilla) The Konqueror web browser is also available on the KDE desktop Other browsers include: Opera On the command line, you can also use lynx, which is a text based web browser

PTA Linux Series Copyright Professional Training Academy, CSIS, University of Limerick, 2006 © Demonstration: Thunderbird is an client which you can download with Firefox (Mozilla) Kmail is also available for the KDE desktop Other popular clients include: Evolution If you are looking for text based clients on the command line, try: pine or mutt

PTA Linux Series Copyright Professional Training Academy, CSIS, University of Limerick, 2006 © Demonstration: Microsoft Office Documents To create, open, and edit Microsoft Office documents you can use OpenOffice OpenOffice supports Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and access files When creating documents in Linux which you wish to open in Windows, make sure that you save as.doc,.ppt. etc.

PTA Linux Series Copyright Professional Training Academy, CSIS, University of Limerick, 2006 © Demonstration: File Manager The equivalent of My Computer on Windows is: – Nautilus for the Gnome desktop – Konqueror for the KDE desktop You can access your file manager on Gnome from the Applications menu as follows: Applications->System->File Browser

PTA Linux Series Copyright Professional Training Academy, CSIS, University of Limerick, 2006 © Demonstration: Opening Common Files.doc,.ppt – Microsoft Office files ooffice filemane.doc.pdf – Adobe Acrobat files acroread filename.pdf.ps – Postscript files gv filename.ps

PTA Linux Series Copyright Professional Training Academy, CSIS, University of Limerick, 2006 © Demonstration: Opening Files from USB, CD, and DVD Plug and play is now default in most Linux distributions When you insert a USB key, CD, or DVD, you can read, copy, and write files to/from these devices by accessing the following location in your filesystem: /media/* e.g. /media/cdrom, /media/dvd If your Linux does not automatically mount the device to /media/ you can use the mount command, e.g. mount /dev/sda1 /media/usbkey

PTA Linux Series Copyright Professional Training Academy, CSIS, University of Limerick, 2006 © Demonstration: Searching for Files To search for file names on the command line, use: find./ -name filename –print To search for words within files use: grep “search pattern” filename

PTA Linux Series Copyright Professional Training Academy, CSIS, University of Limerick, 2006 © Demonstration: Printing Files If using OpenOffice and your printer setting are installing you can use: File->Print On the command use, you can use the lpr (line printer) command, for example: lpr –P printername filename.pdf

PTA Linux Series Copyright Professional Training Academy, CSIS, University of Limerick, 2006 © Demonstration: File Sharing To share a drive or folder in Linux in the same manner as Windows, you can use the samba program For example, to map a network drive: smbmount /network/drive /local/mountpoint –o username=remoteusername A graphical program called LinNeighborhood exists for reading and writing to network drives

PTA Linux Series Copyright Professional Training Academy, CSIS, University of Limerick, 2006 © Demonstration: Desktop Power Virtual Desktops allow you to open multiple windows and start a new desktop for a different task without closing down windows Creating an icon for an application on the desktop requires that you know the location of the command you wish to run

PTA Linux Series Copyright Professional Training Academy, CSIS, University of Limerick, 2006 © Demonstration: Graphics Graphics Package: The Gimp Diagram Package: xfig – e.g. create postscript graphics

PTA Linux Series Copyright Professional Training Academy, CSIS, University of Limerick, 2006 © Demonstration: Running Programs Java Programs: javac filename (compile) java filename (run) Perl Programs: perl filename.pl (run) C Programs gcc filename –o filename.c (compile)./filename.c (run)

PTA Linux Series Copyright Professional Training Academy, CSIS, University of Limerick, 2006 © Demonstration: IDEs Eclipse and Netbeans are among the most popular

PTA Linux Series Copyright Professional Training Academy, CSIS, University of Limerick, 2006 © Exercises 1)Log onto your Linux system with the course username and password 2)Use Firefox to find 1 pdf file and 1 postscript file in google and save it to your home directory 3)Use OpenOffice to create a word document and save it in your home directory. Spend some time examining the other types of documents which you can create with OpenOffice, e.g. Impress will create PowerPoint presentations 4)From your desktop, use your system file manager to create a directory called project1 with a file called report.txt inside it. Edit report.txt and add a couple of lines of text. Copy report.txt to your home directory 5)Using the pdf that you downloaded in ex. 2, use acrobat reader ( acroread) to open it. Also, use ghostview ( gv ) to open the postscript file

PTA Linux Series Copyright Professional Training Academy, CSIS, University of Limerick, 2006 © Exercises 6) On the command line, use the grep command to search your report.txt for the word “the” or any other word which is in your file 7)On the command line, use the find command from your home directory to find the location of the report.txt file 8)Use your virtual desktops to open a web browser on desktop 1 and openoffice on desktop 2 9)Use the gimp to create a.jpg graphic 10) Use xfig to create an.eps graphic