Installing Gally files

As stated at http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com/2010/10/introducing-gally.html, if you are only installing the lesson pack for your own user account (rather than all user accounts), you can put it in .kde/share/apps/gally inside your home directory. You only need to put it inside /usr/share/kde4/apps/gally if you are installing it globally (i.e., for all user accounts).

If you want to open up the folder where you would put the lesson pack to install it just for your one user account, and your username is eddy, you can paste /home/eddy/.kde/share/apps/gally in in Go > Location (or similar) in Dolphin (if you're using Kubuntu) or Nautilus (for regular Ubuntu). If your username is not eddy, then replace eddy with your username.

You can also get to /home/eddy/.kde/share/apps/gally by pressing Alt+F2 and running "dolphin /home/eddy/.kde/share/apps/gally" (if you're running Kubuntu) or "nautilus /home/eddy/.kde/share/apps/gally" (if you're running regular Ubuntu). Do not include the quotes.

If you want to install the lesson pack globally, then you will have to copy it to /usr/share/kde4/apps/gally as root. You can do this graphically by running your file browser (Dolphin in Kubuntu, or Nautilus in Ubuntu) by pressing Alt+F2 and running "kdesudo dolphin" (for Kubuntu) or "gksu nautilus" (for regular Ubuntu). This will open up a file browser window that is running as root, and you can use it to copy the files to /usr/share/kde4/apps/gally. It is important to be very careful with this root file browser window, because you can do pretty much anything with it, which means you could badly break your Ubuntu system if you're not careful. Please note also that any programs you run from this root file browser window (for example, by double-clicking on a document in it) will be run as root, too. I highly recommend closing the root file browser window as soon as you're done with it, so you do not accidentally confuse it with a regular file browser window.

"I would use terminal how ever I dont know the right commands.."

If you'd prefer to use the Konsole (in Kubuntu) or Terminal (in regular Ubuntu), the command to use for copying file is called cp. You can get help for it at http://manpages.ubuntu.com. To run it as root (if you are copying files to /usr/share/kde4/apps/gally), prefix it with "sudo ". (You can look up help on sudo at http://manpages.ubuntu.com as well. See also https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RootSudo.) If you are copying files to .kde/share/apps/gally in your home directory (which you can refer to as ~/.kde/share/apps/gally in the Terminal/Konsole), you do not need to run cp as root.