Symbolic linking confusion

[Ben Scott]

On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 9:59 PM, Bruce Labitt
<bruce.labitt at myfairpoint.net> wrote:
> I'm running Ubuntu 12.10 and
> installed the nvidia-cuda-toolkit package.

  Side note: Make sure you install any related -dev or -devel packages, too.

> $ sudo ln -s libcuda.so.1 libcuda.so  ?  or the other way around ?

  I don't know if that's the right thing to do here or not, but ln(1)
works just like the cp(1) command:

         ln existing_file new_link

  new_link ends up pointing at existing_file.

  (Technically existing_file doesn't need to exist already for a symlink.)

-- Ben