[PLUG] Trying to create a link

[wes]

On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 12:23 PM, Mike Connors <mconnors1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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...
>
>
Either should work fine for John's situation. Though I agree that a symlink
is technically more correct.

-wes