On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 07:14:20PM +0500, Fritz Brown wrote: > Which may explain why I am having trouble understanding how to install Opera. I got a .deb of the latest version, and am trying to follow the instructions on various websites concerning dpkg, and I keep getting messages that I make it appear I am not using the proper attributes.... You need to run sudo dpkg -i [whatever it is].deb Do you know about sudo? It runs a single command as root. Not everyone can sudo commands -- you need to be in the /etc/sudoers file. Which you may or may not be. To set up sudo, log in as root, then type visudo to edit the /etc/sudoers file in a syntax-safe(r) way. You'll need to know how to use vim to make any sense of visudo, but here are the two commands you'll need: 1) 'i' to get out of command mode and into insert mode, from which you can start entering text. 2) '<esc>' to get out of insert mode back into command mode. 3) ':wq' to Write the file and Quit. There should already be a line in /etc/sudoers like so: root ALL=(ALL) ALL If your username is foo, you can just add foo ALL=(ALL) ALL to give foo the same permissions as root. Once you've made those changes, you can 1) log out of the root account, then 2) run sudo dpkg -i [whatever it is].deb to install Opera. You'll get a prompt asking you whether you're sure you know the gravity of running a command as a sudoer. That should get you started on the road to installing things under Debian. Let us know if you have any difficulties. -- Stephen R. Laniel steve@laniels.org +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key
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