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 <indule...@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. > > -- > ❤ ♫ ❤ ♫ ❤ ♫ ❤ > 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 > > -- 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/cadz+jbox-upxejbazlsdo9ujgcx-adixpp07uge0qzbdfh2...@mail.gmail.com