Ho do i navigate to my downloads directory from a terminal

[Peterfc]

Can anybody help

I am trying to install Google earth for research i am doing.

I have found Ubuntu Guide and can install some things from the terminal.

Below is from Google on how to install Google Earth. It says to navigate to where i have my downloads. I keep them on my desttop but how do i navigate to the desktop from a terminal. Thanks for reading this post i refuse to go back to Windows.


3. Open a terminal window/console and navigate to your default downloads directory. Enter the following command in the directory: > sh GoogleEarthLinux.bin
4. Follow the prompts to complete the installation. The default location for the program is "/usr/local/google/google-earth." If Google Earth was installed in its default location, you can launch it using the following command: > /usr/local/google/google-earth/googleearth

Dell Demention 2400, 2.6 Celeron, 200gb drive, 1gb ram, Ubuntu 8.4

[spiderbatdad]

cd Desktop

or:

cd De<tab key>

[Nepherte]

Navigating is done in the terminal with the 'cd' (change directory) command. Open up a terminal (the current start directory is typically the home directory):

cd Desktop

[frup]

To go to the desktop in terminal you only need to go

cd Desktop

make sure it is a capital D.

cd means change directory. The terminal starts in your home directory and your Desktop is located in there.

to go back a directory go cd ..

to see what's in a directory go ls have fun.

Edit:

http://linuxcommand.org/
http://www.pixelbeat.org/cmdline.html
http://www.ss64.com/bash/
http://www.computerworld.com/action/...icleId=9030259
http://howtoforge.com/useful_linux_commands

Read all those and practice and with in a week you'll almost be a pro! Makes learning other parts of linux a lot easier too (in other ways you could argue that is everything that you need to learn in linux).

[hyper_ch]

add the mediubuntu repos and google earth is in there... that's a lot simpler...

[Nythain]

and since no one actually bothered to mention it that i saw, that would be somewhere along the lines of

/home/<name>/Desktop
otherwise known as
~/Desktop
or
$HOME/Desktop

if you happen to find yourself somewhere other than in your home directory in the terminal ever