How do I navigate to /opt?

gizmo90

This is probably going to sound really really daft but I've not been able to work this out for ages and since my retropie install is on a regular pi0 with no wifi, I need to access it directly from the keyboard with commands.

How do I get to the /opt directory?? There's something about Linux that I'm intrinsically missing, as opposed to DOS. Is it something about user rights? But basically typing ls shows that I only have the RetroPie and RetroPie-Setup directories listed. So how do I go up the directory structure?

Any help much appreciated.

kiro

@gizmo90 Hi, if your 'ls' command is showing RetroPie & RetroPie-Setup, it most probably means that you are in the 'home' directory, probably /home/pi/ ... if you wish to change to /opt directory, type

cd /opt

This should do the trick. Let me know if it is not the case.

Small edit for your information, in Linux, the root directory of the filesystem is '/', so typing 'cd /' will position you in the root directory.

gizmo90

@kiro said in How do I navigate to /opt?:

Small

Thank you so much for that! I just wasn't understanding the need for a space between cd and /

YFZdude

@gizmo90 said in How do I navigate to /opt?:

So how do I go up the directory structure?

Also, just like in DOS, the command cd .. will still move you 'up' one directory level. The .. represents the parent directory.

sleve_mcdichael

I think perhaps the confusion is that your "starting" location is your user home directory /home/pi but that it's abbreviated to the shortcut ~, which makes it look like you're not already two levels deep into the filesystem, when you actually are.

pi@retropie:~ $ << home folder (/home/[user])

pi@retropie:/ $ << root folder (/)

jamrom2

@gizmo90

if you're using a Windows based PC, grab WinSCP. Use that for working with the file and folder structure. It will help you learn quickly where things are and make it easy to load/delete files

Then Putty to work with the permissions and other issues you will come across that require "sudo" based commands.