Using a Konsole/Terminal
What is a Konsole? Konsole is the KDE version of a Terminal. So what, then, is a terminal? It is the Linux equivalent to a Windoze command prompt...basically, it is a text version of a user interface. Everything in a terminal is done by typing out commands. Some people might not feel comfortable doing this, which is why we did most of the graphical stuff first in this walkthrough.
Launching Konsole
Click Kmenu -> System -> Konsole-Command Line Interpreter:
To launch a root (super user) konsole/terminal, click Kmenu -> System -> Command Line Interpreter-Super User Mode:
Caution: If you are new to Ark or to Linux in general, please be careful with a root terminal, it can damage your system if either you are not careful or do not yet know what you're doing with a konsole.
Using Konsole
Note: We are doing this as nonsuper user, so make sure you are using Konsole-Command Line Interpreter and not Command Line Interpreter-Super User Mode
Type in ls and press Enter. Notice how it lists the files and folders in your Home folder. Now type in the following commands, keeping in mind ALL commands are CaSe SeNsItIvE, so if something is lowercase, it must remain lowercase, and if something is CAPITAL, it must remain CAPITAL:
ls ls Desktop cp -r 'Linux-A History' Desktop ls ls Desktop echo We just copied a folder to the Desktop
Your konsole should look somewhat like the following picture:
Don't worry if our pictures don't look exactly alike, as long as the command output is the same.
