Installing The Hessling Editor (THE) and Locating the Demonstration File

Question

I'm still getting started with Linux. I've been trying to install The Hessling Editor with REXX enabled on Ubuntu (and hopefully the Linux Subsystem on Windows in the future). I thought it would be simple by just doing

sudo apt-get install the

and then

sudo apt-get install regina-rexx

but then I'm not able to find the demonstration file. I've tried searching for it

find options ./ "demo.the"

but the search yields nothing. Am I doing something wrong or do I need to get the demonstration file from somewhere else?

Answer 1

The file is in /usr/share/THE.

You can find this by running dpkg -L the | grep demo.the, or if you install apt-file, apt-file search demo.the. You can also use find, as you thought, as follows:

find / -name demo.the

This starts searching from the root directory, looking for a file named demo.the. You’ll get a lot of error messages saying you don’t have the necessary permissions to access certain directories, but it will still find the file.