Ubuntu – How to get a USB drive shortcut on desktop

If you want to run python in Ubuntu, just open a terminal with Ctrl-Alt-T and execute this command

python

Then you will have an interactive python interpreter running in the termnal.

I am assuming you want to run python portably from the USB drive and use it anywhere with Linux system. You can achieve this by downloading portable python from this site

1. Download it

2. Install it to your USB drive

   I am quoting from the site

   Portable Python can be installed on any USB storage device, local hard drive or network location. It is possible to install several different distributions of Portable Python on the same USB storage device (or local hard drive) and have them running side by side. This makes Portable Python ideal environment to test your code with different Python engines.

3. Then run from the USB directly to program python

Enjoy Portable Pythonning!!

Let's assume that your file's path is : /home/username/folder1/file.txt and you want to create a Desktop shortcut for that file.
You need to open the terminal and run the following command:

ln -s <absolute_path_of_the_file> <shortcut_path>

So in this example, it will be:

ln -s /home/username/folder1/file.txt /home/username/Desktop/

Don't forget to include the absolute path of the file, otherwise the shortcut will be broken.