Re: Newbie wants Firefox and Tbird
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
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