[PLUG] Trying to create a link

[Mike Connors]

wes wrote:
>> Then I used "ln /usr/lib64/openoffice.org/ure/lib/libuno_sal.so.3
>> ure-link <http://openoffice.org/ure/lib/libuno_sal.so.3%0Aure-link>" to
>> create a link to the libuno_sal.so.3 file. This created a
>> file in both folders named ure-link. But I must not have done it right
>> because Nautilus says it is a shared library, not a link. And OOo still
>> won't launch.
>>
>> I read man ln but couldn't understand very much of it. How can I
>> recreate the ure-link so it points to the libuno_sal.so.3 library?
I've never had a need to create a hard link, which is what is created by 
default when you don't specify the "-s" option for a symbolic link. I've 
used a soft link for for pointing at the location for the file the link 
references.

My understanding is that hard links are used for to identifying the 
specific location of physical data. And they will always refer to the 
source even if moved or removed. Whereas a symbolic link will break...