Thank you! The sudo nano command worked 
I tried this code on a Raspbian (bullseye) fresh install and it won't work because the git command doesn't exist.
The sudo apt install part of the code installs subversion, is that really necessary? I think there is a mistake, it should be git instead of subversion.
Entirely possible, seems logical to me to change it. Probably no one has noticed because the OctoPrint install instructions have it on the list to install, though it's not actually required there anymore since OctoPrint is on PyPi.
so i really need help here. i know my way around windows but have never messed with linux. i understand it but just cant figure out a few steps. i have octoprint installed and tested its working. i managed to get mjpg streamer running with my cam. now im stuck on getting them both to start on boot. the issue im running into is
"Create a new file at /home/pi/scripts/webcamDaemon (ie. run nano /home/pi/scripts/webcamDaemon ), with the following content:"
i tried "nano /home/pi/scripts/webcamDaemon" but i just recieve command not found. i can ftp to the server so if someone can just give me the script and i can place it where it needs to go. i apologize. ive tried multiple times now and i made this account only for the purpose of getting help with this, if it helps im running a jetson nano 4gb.
edit:so after looking nano is just a text editor. can i just make a text file on windows and ftp it to the server? but also the directories do not exist at this point, should the already be there? or is it normal i have to create them for this step
What Linux distro are you running? You might be able to install nano. Or use another text editor - it doesn't have to be nano. Any way you can get the files across to the Pi will do, ftp is fine. I would recommend finding a text editor you can use in case you need to edit or correct files in the future, even if you can get through this guide by just copying the files across.
so i got the files across now im just running into a host of issues. when attempting to run
./mjpg_streamer -i "./input_uvc.so" -o "./output_http.so"
the only output i get is " -bash: ./mjpg-streamer: Is a directory"
i just cannot get the cam to start anymore and defintetely does not start on boot. following a different guide i had it working through a test command but with this guide im getting nothing from my cam. im running the distro from nvidia for the jetson, its L4T. havent had a single issue yet other than getting this webcam to start.
In the previous step of the guide, it had cd mjpg-streamer/mjpg-streamer-experimental first, so you will need to do that again.
It might be easiest for you to open your own topic for your specific problems that will take more conversation - it can get confusing with lots of posts under the guide.
ok. thanks. probably just done with it at this point. beyond frustrating. not paying $160 for a pi just to run octoprint, cant get it to work on the jetson. yup. back to sd printing for me. sorry im just angry. i have friends i would consider computer illiterate or straight up idiots and they have gotten this running. not sure what the hell my problem is..
Well, if you decide to continue pursuing installing OctoPrint, you know where you can get help 
Are pi's ridiculously priced everywhere? Cheapest I can find is $165 CAD for a pi4 b. And also not sure how much work it takes but willing to pay someone to put together an octoprint image for a jetson nano.. thanks for the help. Apologies for being a grumpy ass today.
When doing a manual install there is no octopi-wpa-supplicant.txt to edit the WiFi and I need to do it on the ssh system do any of you super smart people no how I can do it I'm using Ubuntu server and followed all the instructions on here to set it up and everything works great if I'm hard wired to my router but not WiFi
I'm sure there are how to's on setting up WiFi on whatever your base OS is on the RPi. Any instructions or files that start with "octopi-" are going to be specific to OctoPi as the base.
These are the instructions for setting up octoprint on other devices and there is no mention of how to set WiFi for the other devices.
These are not for octopi that's easy to setup on a raspberry pi but don't work for orange pi running Ubuntu but cheers for response
You won't find that answer on the community forums for OctoPrint - its an OS specific instruction that is outside OctoPrint.
The guide for installing Ubuntu on a Raspberry Pi has instructions: How to install Ubuntu Server on your Raspberry Pi | Ubuntu
I assume you should be able to find wherever you got the Ubuntu image from will have instructions on how to use it. This guide only details how to install OctoPrint on to an already working Linux device.
Just a thankyou to you although the instructions on that site were wrong too it did prompt me to go to the orange pi site where I found the instructions to set the wifi for my pi in server mode and then set the octoprint to allow the dialup and bingo got octoprint online on my orange pi so again thankyou 
Ok. For me, it was in /home/pi/mjpg-streamer/mjpg-streamer-experimental/scripts/webcamDaemon. Not sure how that changed, I'm using Ubuntu LTS and someone said this would work, can't remember who.
That would only occur if you created the file in that location instead of where the guide said to:
If you decide to deviate from what's above, you'll have to keep track of your changes on your own...
It may be worth noting that raspy-config needs camera turned on to get web-stream.
M117 string lengths beyond 85 characters cause ender 3 printers to get confused and ask for reset. This may happen with other printers also.
My install attempt is pi 4 pinn booting nspawn64 using the buster64 side to install OctoPrint. Web interface is up and running but will not connect to printer, Need to set up serial logging and run again,
Reminded again that copy & paste of commands is a line by line operation done carefully in the system you intend to update even if the next line is just 'make'.
(Same person on a different account)
I tried running that, "scripts" isn't in pi, it's in mjpg-streamer/mjpg-streamer-experimental, not sure how that happened, but it could explain why the webcam doesn't run on startup.
There is a scripts folder in mjpg-streamer-experimental, but that is for scripts that come with the repository - you can see it here. The guide is not suggesting to use that one, but to make a new one in /home/pi/scripts.