Re: Solved: Re: Can't install flashplugin.nonfree. ERROR: wget failed to download
Thanks for your response.
Yes, I installed sudo, and edited the confiugration file using visudo.
That was easy.
And I have been using sudo in all the cases where I needed to be root.
I believed that it gives me better security.
However, in this particular case of installing flashplugin-nonfree,
sudo apt-get failed, but su apt-get succeeded.
What I'm trying to say is that this could be interpreted as a subtle bug,
because it confuses a user like me.
2012/5/2, Indulekha <indulekha@theunworthy.com>:
> On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 05:07:26PM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote:
>> On Tue, May 01, 2012 at 05:05:28PM +0900, Han Soo Chang wrote:
>> > Thanks for your help.
>> >
>> > It was just that I needed to apt-get install as root, not sudo apt-get.
>> >
>> > The following command
>> > # apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree
>> > worked just fine.
>> >
>> > $ sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree
>> > failed because the invoked script probably did not have the write
>> > permission
>> > for a certain directory.
>> >
>> > This is a little bit confusing for a newbie like me.
>> > But, anyway, I can now see the videos on youtube.
>>
>> Just remember Debian isn't Ubuntu. When you see "sudo blah blah blah"
>> just run "blah blah blah" as root¹.
>>
>> Ubuntu specifically sets up sudo, they don't like you being root!
>> whereas, in Debian, ***YOU*** would have to install sudo and configure
>> it to get the desired result.
>>
>> ¹ "su -c blah blah blah" is probably better.
>>
>
> ?????
> I use sudo all the time, and have done so for years.
> 'Course you have to install it, add your user to the
> sudo group, and edit /etc/sudoers with the "visudo"
> command first. But all that is very easy.
> Install sudo and read "man sudo".
> Feel free to ask me if you need further help with it.
>
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