Re: Newbie wants Firefox and Tbird

From: Chris Martin (chriscodes_at_gmail.com)
Date: 09/23/05

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    Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 10:09:19 -0700
To: Antony Gelberg <antony@wayforth.co.uk>

    On 9/23/05, Antony Gelberg <antony@wayforth.co.uk> wrote:
    > Fritz Brown wrote:
    > >>You need to run
    > >>
    > >>sudo dpkg -i [whatever it is].deb
    > >>
    > >
    > > Aaaahh. Will try that. Everything else had me doing a dpkg -i | --install [whatever].deb. And, it really didn't like that "| --install" part.
    > > (Running Woody till I get this thing as a going concern. Then I will upgrade.)
    >
    > You need superuser privileges to install packages. Pacakges deposit
    > files in /usr, /etc, /var, and lots of places that a normal user
    > shouldn't be able to affect.

    Yes. So you should be able to login as root (su), and perform
    dpkg -i package.deb

    if you don't want to mess with sudo 

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Chris Martin
Web Developer
Open Source & Web Standards Advocate
http://www.chriscodes.com/
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