Installed software not recognised

[beacon]

I hope this information is sufficient to get me started:

ystem:
Kernel: 5.4.0-121-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 9.4.0
Desktop: Cinnamon 5.2.7 wm: muffin 5.2.1 dm: LightDM 1.30.0
Distro: Linux Mint 20.3 Una base: Ubuntu 20.04 focal
Machine:
Type: Desktop Mobo: ASUSTeK model: M5A78L-M LX v: Rev X.0x
serial: <filter> BIOS: American Megatrends v: 0404 date: 04/22/2011

I have used appImage to download cozy drive, but I can't get it to sync with the desktop. When I try to follow instructions, whatever command I use I always meet the obstacle of a message saying there is 'no such file or directory.' Yet when I go to home, cozydrive exists as a file on its own and also in a folder ''AppImage'.

I have genuinely searched for days, and there is a lot written in a similar vein, but I can't find a solution to this.

With thanks,

[trytip]

you must be more specific or something is lost in translation. what is your issue?

[beacon]

I'm sorry: I seem never to do anything right but appreciate the offer of help despite that. I'd have thought it was clear that I have applications on my computer, but when I try to do anything with them, I am told they don't exist. The instructions are cd ~/Downloads. Then mkdir -p ~/AppImages. So far, so good. Then mv CozyDrive*.AppImage ~/AppImages. I do that, and am told that there is no such file or directory. But when I go to home, it is there. I simply can't understand it.

[spamegg]

You can move the appimage file by opening two windows, one where the file is, and one for ~/AppImages, and drag-dropping with your mouse.

The AppImage file needs to be made executable. Right-click on it, select "Properties" then "Permissions" and check the "execute" boxes.

[beacon]

Thank you spamegg. I have done as you suggest (and have done before), but at every command, I am told there is no such file or directory.

[trytip]

ok i still do not understand what you are saying. delete any cozydrive you have
1: Cozy Drive for GNU/Linux 64 bits <<< click to download cozydrive
2: rightclick on Cozy-Drive-3.35.0-x86_64.AppImage > properties > Permissions > Allow executing file as program check allow
now you can double click and open it

[beacon]

I am very sorry that I seem to be unable to clarify the issue. I have raised the same topic on another site, and there has been no difficulty. I appreciate any help and will do my best to explain. I have read everything possible and been in touch with the Cozy help team, all to no avail. I know the directions seem very simple, and believe me I have done exactly as you have suggested -literally perhaps as many as 30 times in the last four months. I get the page when I start a sync, and the transfer begins, but usually stops short of the current date, and no additions to the desktop files are reflected in the Cozy download. I believe the definition of a fool is one who does the same thing over and over, expecting a different result each time, but I am in that category. I have even downloaded a different distro in the hope I might succeed on that, but no joy. I expect that I should give up, but Cozy was smashing when I once had it working and did all that I wanted.

[mikeflan]

Then mv CozyDrive*.AppImage ~/AppImages. I do that, and am told that there is no such file or directory.

It is best when you post both your command in the terminal and the response. So like this:

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$ mv CozyDrive*.AppImage ~/AppImages
mv: cannot stat 'CozyDrive*.AppImage': No such file or directory
$

After you get that type $PWD in the same terminal and post the output:

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$ $PWD
-bash: /home/mike/Documents/copy: Is a directory
$

Then this:

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ls -la CozyDrive*.AppImage

Report the output.

And then this:

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ls -la ~

Report the output.

[ajgreeny]

I don't know cozydrive at all but in your commands you are using a wildcard * which may be upsetting the attempts you're using. And also don't forget tat Linux is case-sensitive.
I also wonder if the Appimages folder you talk of is perhaps a subfolder of Downloads and not in the root of your home.

Can you please show the contents of ~/Downloads and also ~/Appimages to check exactly what is there with commands

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ls Downloads
ls Appimages

which should explain a lot more about what is happening and what files you actually have downloaded.

[beacon]

Many thanks to both ajgreeny and mikeflan for additional help. I hope I have correctly followed instructions.

As per ajgreeny, here is the output:

my name@l-a320mhd2:~$ ls Downloads
Cozy-Drive-3.35.0-x86_64.AppImage
my name l-a320mhd2:~$ ls Appimages
ls: cannot access 'Appimages': No such file or directory
my name@l-a320mhd2:~$

The suggestion from mikeflan requires more space. I believe there is a way to concentrate the information, but I don't know it, so please forgive me if I have done it wrongly:. I have been warned in the past about including personal information, so the small x's are in place of my user name.

mv: cannot stat 'CozyDrive*.AppImage': No such file or directory
my nme@l-a320mhd2:~$ mv: cannot stat 'CozyDrive*.AppImage': No such file or directory
$
bash: mv:: command not found
bash: $: command not found
my name@l-a320mhd2:~$ $PWD
bash: /home/my name: Is a directory
my name@l-a320mhd2:~$ -bash: /home/my name/Documents/copy: Is a directory
$
bash: -bash:: command not found
bash: $: command not found
my name@l-a320mhd2:~$ ls -la CozyDrive*.AppImage
ls: cannot access 'CozyDrive*.AppImage': No such file or directory
my name@l-a320mhd2:~$ ls -la ~

Thank you.
total 7544
drwxr-xr-x 1 my name my name 526 Jun 25 08:01 .
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 30 Jun 24 15:22 ..
-rwxr-xr-x 1 x x 16 Jun 15 18:49 appimagetool-711-x86_64.AppImage
-rw------- 1 x x 889 Jun 24 17:33 .bash_history
-rw-r--r-- 1 x x 220ug 4 2021 .bash_logout
-rw-r--r-- 1 x x 3526 Aug 4 2021 .bashrc
drwxr-xr-x 1 x x 916 Jun 25 08:13 .cache
drwxr-xr-x 1 x x 1558 Jun 25 09:06 .config
drwxr-xr-x 1 x x 502 Jun 25 09:04 .cozy-desktop
drwxr-xr-x 1 x x 120 Jun 24 16:50 'Cozy Drive'
drwx------ 1 x x 22 Jun 24 15:25 .dbus
drwxr-xr-x 1x x 180 Jun 24 17:54 Desktop
drwxr-xr-x 1x x 0 Jun 24 15:25 Documents
drwxr-xr-x 1 x x 66 Jun 24 15:28 Downloads
-rw-r--r-- 1 x x 262 Jun 25 08:01 .gtkrc-2.0
drwx------ x x x 10 Jun 11 02:38 .kde
drwx------ 1 x x 128 Jun 24 17:11 .librewolf
drwxr-xr-x 1 x x 10 Jun 11 02:38 .local
drwx------ 1x x 72 Jun 24 15:26 .mozilla
drwxr-xr-x 1x x 0 Jun 24 15:25 Music
drwxr-xr-x 1 x x 0 Jun 24 15:25 Pictures
drwx------ 1 x x 10 Jun 24 15:29 .pki
-rw-r--r-- 1 x x 807 Aug 4 2021 .profile
drwxr-xr-x 1x x 0 Jun 24 15:25 Public
drwxr-xr-x 1 x x 0 Jun 24 15:25 Templates
drwx------ 1 x x 180 Jun 24 15:32 .thunderbird
drwxr-xr-x 1 x x 0 Jun 24 15:25 Videos
-rw-r--r-- 1 lx x 165 Jun 24 17:31 .wget-hsts
-rw------- 1x x 55 Jun 25 08:01 .Xauthority
-rw------- 1 x x 1007548 Jun 25 09:07 .xsession-errors
la

[trytip]

in Terminal:

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locate Cozy-Drive
/Downloads/Cozy-Drive-3.35.0-x86_64.AppImage

[mikeflan]

my name@l-a320mhd2:~$ $PWD
bash: /home/my name: Is a directory

OK, so your terminal is pointed at /home/my name/, which is OK, but Cozy-Drive-3.35.0-x86_64.AppImage is not in there according to the ls command results you posted. And neither is any file that starts with CozyDrive (no dash between them) and ends with .AppImage

drwxr-xr-x 1 x x 66 Jun 24 15:28 Downloads

Downloads is a subdirectory of /home/my name/. So in that same terminal you can do:

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cd Downloads

to get to the /home/my name/Downloads directory. Then do:

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ls -la

again. Does it list Cozy-Drive-3.35.0-x86_64.AppImage as a file?
If no, do

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cd ..

and then

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cd 'Cozy Drive'

And then:

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ls -la

again to see if it is in home/my name/Cozy Drive/.
The locate command will probably find it for you.

[BenTrabetere]

The locate command will probably find it for you.

If locate does not return any results you may need to update your mlocate database by entering

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sudo updatedb

[beacon]

Thanks again to my advisers. I am going step by step through all the suggestions but am not having much luck. I shall report any good news as soon as possible. In the interval I have another question -this time for BenTrabetere: when typing in sudo updatedb I get the following result:
$$ sudo updatedb
xxSystem-Product-Name:~$
xx-System-Product-Name:~$ Top

Command 'Top' not found, did you mean:

command 'hop' from deb hopenpgp-tools (0.22-2build2)
command 'fop' from deb fop (1:2.4-2)
command 'top' from deb procps (2:3.3.16-1ubuntu2.3)
command 'nop' from deb graphviz (2.42.2-3build2)

Try: sudo apt install <deb name>

I'm sorry that that means nothing to me. Can you help please.

[ajgreeny]

I am now becoming totally confused by all of this thread which seems to be going round in circles.

By the way, the command to view resource use in terminal is top not Top. There is also htop which shows similar info in an ncurses GUI
As I mentioned earlier, don't forget Linux is case sensitive unlike Windows.

I am also confused about the way you show $$ sudo updatedb with a double $$ which does not make sense to me.
The single $ character you should see in terminal after the user prompt just shows that you are a normal user, not root which would show #.
The sudo updatedb command will give you no output but simply return to the command prompt having updated the database of files and folders.

[iliketrains]

I am now becoming totally confused by all of this thread which seems to be going round in circles.

Yep. Must be typos or something.

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mkdir -p ~/AppImages

was run but there is no directory AppImages ? We can worry about that later.
All of this can be done without commands in a terminal.
If the goal is having the appimage in a directory named AppImages re-read spamegg's post. If the directory Appimages does not exist create it with a right click.
After creating the new folder double click it and do the drag and permissions as described.

edit/ had to fix a typo .

[beacon]

I appreciate very much all the assistance that has been offered. Since my last post I have gone through each suggestion once again but have not succeeded in installing a version of Cozy that works as it should and as I once had it when using LM19. I have also tried installing on another distro on another machine. And I had someone who knows more about these things than I have a look. The response was to look for an alternative to Cozy.

When I first used Cozy I installed in the simple way that has been suggested by several of you: download, make it executable, and that's it. That didn't work this time, which is why I sought help, thinking it must be a result of my ignorance. I agree with ajgreeny that the thread has now become quite convoluted and confusing, so I shall give up.

I thank all of you for your help.

[Reddog1]

Open a terminal and then:

$sudo flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo

$flatpak install flathub Cozy

Choose Yes for the github for cozy

That should do it, I think.

[Coggy]

I can see beacon making two spelling errors:
- AppImages vs Appimages
- Cozy-Drive vs CozyDrive
Keep posting the commands you type and the responses, and this should be fairly straightforward to sort out.

[beacon]

I had fully intended to give up, but I am grateful to Coggy and Reddog1 for additional help. With respect to Reddog, I think there is a misunderstanding. Cozydrive have made it clear on their website that 'CozyDrive is available as an AppImage'. Would that it were as simple as flatpak. I believe the cozy in the flatpak store is an audio app.
I'm not quite certain what is meant by suggestions made by Coggy. Is it that I should go through the suggestions made by others, but typing the four variations to see what happens?
Many thanks.