adding a script to the menu - how do I?

[goldstar1]

I purchased a book "Practical PHP and MySQL" by Jono Bacon --- cool stuff that I would like to get under my belt. Through this book, there's a program called XAMPP that I downloaded and installed.

There's a 'xampp-control-panel' that gets started by running this script...

$ cd /opt/lampp/share/xampp-control-panel

then...

$ sudo ./xampp-control-panel

I would like to be able to start this "control-panel" from the 'Menu'

right click 'Menu' >> "Edit menu' >> Administration >> 'New Item" button >> WHAT DO I PLACE IN THE COMMAND WINDOW?

Thank You

[Fred]

goldstar1,

There a number of ways to go about this depending on what you needs and desires are. I would probably do the below.

Set the file permissions with:

sudo chmod 755 /opt/lampp/share/xampp-control-panel


Copy to /usr/local/bin with:

sudo cp -a /opt/lampp/share/xampp-control-panel /usr/local/bin

Use "xampp-control-panel" without the quotes as the command to start.

Fred

[goldstar1]

Thanks for your quick reply.

I did this just now and that didn't work. Nothing happens when I click on the menu item.

Here in California it's like my bed time. I'll continue with this tomarrow.

[Fred]

goldstar1,

Try putting it in /usr/bin instead of /usr/local/bin
I don't know what has been done with the paths on the new release.

sudo cp -a /opt/lampp/share/xampp-control-panel /usr/bin

Fred

[goldstar1]

That didn't work either

I tried...
Desktop $ sudo cp -a /opt/lampp/share/xampp-control-panel/xampp-control-panel /usr/local/bin /usr/bin

then from command window
/usr/local/bin and sh /usr/local/bin
then
/usr/bin and sh /usr/bin
then
/usr/local/bin/xampp-control-panel and sh /usr/local/bin/xampp-control-panel
then
both /usr/local/bin and /usr/bin /xampp-control-panel

I got that 'sh' part from an Ubuntu forum from google --- I even tried a script which didn't work

Yes from a console I can type

Desktop $ cd /opt/lampp/share/xampp-control-panel

then...

/opt/lampp/share/xampp-control-panel $ sudo ./xampp-control-panel

and there it is with all its Glory!

[Fred]

goldstar1,

ok... let's start over here. I think I see the problem. Do you have a folder called "xampp-control-panel" and in that folder you have a file called "xampp-control-panel"? If you do, that is where I went wrong.

If that is what you have then open a terminal and:

sudo chmod 755 /opt/lampp/share/xampp-control-panel/xampp-control-panel

Then in a terminal:

sudo cp -a /opt/lampp/share/xampp-control-panel/xampp-control-panel /usr/bin

Now... type in a terminal:

xampp-control-panel

and it should run. That should also be the command to put in the launcher.

Fred

[goldstar1]

The response I get from the console is 'You must be root to launch xampp-control-panel'

The permissions set are 777

[goldstar1]

Here I finally found my answer and it works

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=223410

Maybe this should be a sticky

anyway..thanks so much for your help Fred...you did lead me on the right direction

[Fred]

goldstar1,

Just as a matter of information. It is always a bad idea to run a GUI program as root. A well behaved program should run in a user account. Be wary of a program that requires root privileges to operate correctly. This is the kind of thing that causes Windows to be so insecure.

Fred

[goldstar1]

Good point...Excellent point actually...Thank you again!