After install BricsCAD v25, I wish to edit some files inside distrobox, but I can not find where was installed. And I did not find anything on the internet.
How can I access to the distrobox files to find BricsCAD install path? Maybe with terminal?
Cool, anything for Ubuntu container with .deb package? And where is the documentation?
I have result that when I tried find the BricsCAD paths
📦[wicho@U22 ~]$ find / -xdev -iname "*bricscad*" 2> /dev/null
/opt/bricsys/bricscad
/opt/bricsys/bricscad/v25/API/bricscad
/opt/bricsys/bricscad/v25/Help/en_US/Tips/image/export_to_bricscad.svg
/opt/bricsys/bricscad/v25/Help/en_US/Tips/image/new to bricscad.svg
/opt/bricsys/bricscad/v25/Help/en_US/Tips/image/new_to_bricscad.svg
/opt/bricsys/bricscad/v25/imports/BricsCAD
/opt/bricsys/bricscad/v25/bricscad
/opt/bricsys/bricscad/v25/bricscad.sh
/opt/bricsys/bricscad/v25/libbricscadapi.so
/usr/bin/bricscadv25
/usr/share/doc/bricscadv25
/usr/share/menu/bricscadv25
/usr/share/pixmaps/bricscadv25.png
/usr/share/applications/bricscadv25.desktop
/usr/share/mime/packages/bricscadv25.xml
/usr/share/mime/application/x-bricscadv25.xml
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps/bricscadv25.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/bricscadv25.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/bricscadv25.svg
/usr/share/icons/gnome/48x48/mimetypes/gnome-mime-application-x-bricscadv25.png
/var/lib/dpkg/info/bricscadv25.list
/var/lib/dpkg/info/bricscadv25.postinst
/var/lib/dpkg/info/bricscadv25.postrm
/var/lib/dpkg/info/bricscadv25.md5sums
/var/bricsys/BricsCADV25.lic
/var/bricsys/BricsCAD CommunicatorV25.lic
📦[wicho@U22 ~]$ find / -xdev -iname "*RLM*" 2> /dev/null
/opt/bricsys/bricscad/v25/librlm1521.so
/usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.plasma.quicklaunch/contents/ui/UrlModel.qml
📦[wicho@U22 ~]$
I checked my whole “/” root and and I found nothing in the above terminal’s path results exist in my disk, maybe is there another root “/”? or I am missing something?
PD: I use Fedora 42 Silverblue
When you use Distrobox or any other container technology (Podman, Docker, …), the container has its own root filesystem, independent of the host filesystem. This is how you can have, say, a Debian distrobox on a Fedora Silverblue system, without the two interfering with each other. Think of it like a VM, just slightly more light-weight.
When you install something inside a container, you can see the files from inside the container, as you have shown in the output of the find command. And you can easily edit these files from inside the container, either as your user or as root, using nano [filename] or sudo nano [filename].
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I can use nano to edit TXT files, but How to open those files with any file explorer like normal files? I wish only change my license, and for this I need copy and paste a file to the BricsCAD install path.
They are normal files and any process inside the container will see them normally. If you need a file explorer, you can install and use something like Midnight Commander (mc) in the container. (If you need the graphical file manager from your desktop environment, you will have to replicate your desktop environment inside the distrobox, which is probably a bit wasteful for just this purpose.)
In your original post, you asked about editing, that’s why I recommended nano. Anyway, if you have a file and need to place it in a certain location, you can just cp/mv it where you need it from your home directory:
> [sudo] mv ~/mylicense.file /wherever/it/needs/to/be/
(Longer explanation: behind the scenes, Distrobox makes some things from your host system available inside the container. This includes your home, otherwise you wouldn’t be able to access your home from the container/distrobox.)
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I am not sure where is the path location for license file (to copy) and RLM file (to activate the license), and not sure if the files have same names like windows.
I still think could be easier any method to open|search the files with any GUI File Explorer Manager.
PD: I already tried to install|reinstall Dolphin and Nautilus in Distrobox Ubuntu 22 Guest with Fedora 42 Silverblue host, but the app does not open.
I cannot help you with that, sorry. Maybe ask the developers for documentation on how to activate their software? That should be the least they can do for a user who paid for it.
Have you tried Midnight Commander? It is a two-pane console file manager and you can operate it with either your keyboard or your mouse. I regularly use it on headless servers.
I guess it should work but I never would have considered doing that so I have not tried it myself. But there could be any number of reasons for it not working.
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