I am embarrassed to ask...

[Juul58]

howsoever... This is a strange new world for me. I downloaded Corel WP, managed to figure out how to extract, figured out how to start the installation procedure. How do you create a directory? How do you know where you want to create it? (The documentation that came with the software assumes that you know what you are doing.)

This is day 2 for me and my Linux. I think that I like it more than it likes me. Sigh.

Thanks :)

[Tyr-7BE]

Hehehe...that's a common feeling amongst newbies...it will pass. It never gets to love you, but it gets to respect you as you gain experience. It's a mutual love-hate respect relationship.
The short of your question: the "mkdir" command will make a directory, similar to "md" in dos.
The long of your question: I don't know whether you've gotten into permissions yet, but different users can do different things in linux. Your root account has supreme executive power, and can do anything...that's why you NEVER use root full time, as it's so easy to screw up your computer. Your user accound has whatever permissions root gives it. Typically, when you create a user account, the user will have write permission to /home/username and only /home/username. You must give your users write permissions with the root account to new directories that you create. For example, let's say you make a new directory under /usr called "newdir". Now if you go into "newdir" and try to create a file (touch newfile.txt), you probably won't be able to do it...it will tell you that permission is denied. That's because the folder is owned by root, and "user" only has read permissions. One of the ways to change this is the "chown" command. It will change the ownership of a file or folder. Go to /usr as root and type "chown username /usr/newdir" where username is your username. Now it's your directory. If that's not enough, there's "chmod", which will change the file permissions. "chmod 755 newfile.txt" will give the owner full permissions to a file, while "chmod -R 755 newdir" will give the owner full permissions for the entire directory.
Sorry if this is long-winded. All you really need to know is mkdir, but if you run into permissions problems then that's all you need to know :)

[bdg1983]

This may help to get you started...

http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/commands/index.html

[Juul58]

Thanks, I'll give it a go and see what happens. :p

[rppp01]

Aaaah, to be young and think you can be a linux expert in 6 months time :)

[Tyr-7BE]

Originally posted by rppp01:
Aaaah, to be young and think you can be a linux expert in 6 months time :)

who me?