I was following a guide on here to install an application and hit a syntax snag I need help with

At some point in the guide, it gives the instruction to input “sudo chown -R user:gorup *”. “gorup”, I’m assuming is their own username. Anyways, I attempted to add my username@localhost, the username alone, and the Name I chose found in the Users menu.

I’m sure I’m missing something pretty simple here, but I don’t know what it is. Anyone have an idea?

For reference, I was following this guide (Jellyfin server on OpenSUSE Tumbleweed)

I’ll note that “gorup” is almost certainly a spelling error – a typographic error - intended to be “group”. You can use the

groups

command to find out which groups you are in.

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@ihavenoideawhatimdoing in tumbleweed now group used to be users, but now it would be username:username

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Like literally “username:username” would be what I would input on that line?

Yes, that would probably be appropriate with Tumbleweed. Except you should replace “username” with the login name that you use on your system.

Oops, I meant to add that all of the usernames I tried failed to register.

You better check what commands are supposed to do before executing them:

man chown

for “chown” i almost always use my login name
su -
— password –
cd /to/the/location/
chown john:users FileOrFolderName

@johnvv on new installs or maybe new files it would be john:john now…