ubuntu how to copy downloaded files

Question

I am new to ubuntu, starting today.

I am trying to setup cassandra database in desktop version.

I downloaded and extracted files into downloads folder.

Now i want to copy files to /Cassandra folder under root. I don't want it to be in downloads folder.

Problem is through UI i am not able to access cassandra folder. And through terminal i can't access downloads folder.

How to move around files either in terminal or UI without this folder security issues. How does it suppose to be used?

Answer 1

You're gonna want this in your home directory, not root. Build it from there as a normal user, but if you do a make install, run that as sudo make install instead so that you will install it as user root. Run the following commands in a shell script, or if you want to do it interactively, type each line separately (omitting the first line that begins with the # in it).

#!/bin/bash
sudo mv /root/Cassandra ~/
sudo chown -R `whoami`:`whoami` ~/Cassandra
sudo chmod -R ug+rw ~/Cassandra

Answer 2

You can access anything via a console/terminal. You may have to become root (sudo) to perform file operations on the root file system. (or did you mean /root/Cassandra ?)

Answer 3

It looks like you want to access /root/Cassandra. By default /root is not accessable to normal users. Try setting permissions on /root to 711 or 755 (chmod 711 /root). You will also need make the Casandra directory writeable (chgrp users /root/Casasdda; chmod 770 /root/Casandra). The use the default group of the userid your are downloading as. It may be the same as the userid.