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i have a big problem, i can copy files from usb to the internal hdd, i want the zorin 8 to control my arduino, but the system says that i am not the owner, så i cant copy the files to the arduino place, i shows that the owner is root, and i made a user called arduino as administrator.

I am new to linux.

How can i copy files?

Hi anlsoft, and welcome to Zorin! Sorry to say that I don't know enough about arduino but I know what it is for! All I can suggest until Wolman can offer some mounting options, is to open a terminal (Ctrl+ Alt+ T) and if you know the location of where the 'arduino' folder is, try this at the command prompt so for this example I am pretending that 'arduino' folder is inside the 'Documents' folder so:

Code:

cd Documents

Code:

sudo chown ansloft arduino

What 'chown' does is change ownership from 'root' to 'user'.

Hi,

how did you install the app "Arduino"?, if you downloaded and installed it from an outside source, you need to completely remove it and then open a terminal or use Synaptic and install the Ubuntu version!.

To remove it, open a terminal and paste the following command in the terminal:

Code:

sudo apt-get purge arduino

When that is done, you can install the Ubuntu packages while still in the terminal with:

Code:

sudo apt-get install arduino arduino-core

And then you shouldn't have a permissions problem!.

Or you can install it with Synaptic, you just need to search for the packages "arduino" & "arduino-core".

See also:

http://playground.arduino.cc/Linux/Ubuntu

Regards Wolfman