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. -- ❤ ♫ ❤ ♫ ❤ ♫ ❤ Indulekha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120502062819.GA28630@radhesyama