Copying and pasting files. Nothing new here

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Published on 2012-11-15T04:44:50Z Indexed on 2012/11/15 5:09 UTC
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I installed XBMC and it's working beautifully. I have my own skin I'd like to use and all I should have to do is copy and past my skin.folder into the addons folder and I'm down.

However, this isn't so easy with Ubuntu. I have the latest version, installed today 11-14-2012

Could someone please spell out the command process to make this happen? I've read through so many forums, tried ssh, I know now I'm getting into things that could be dangerous so any help would be much appreciated.

Structure.

/home/cantrellsmedia/Downloads/skin.cantrell   <----- Need copied 

/usr/share/xbmc/addons/ <-------- Paste

Some of what I have tried

cp skin.cantrell mv skin.cantrell~/usr/share/xbmc/addons/

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