Aidan,

>   What should I use if I had a program (for Linux, not Winblows) that
> I wanted to run, but did not trust fully?  Such as a web browser plug-
> in installer, like the Flash installer, something did not come from
> my distribution's software repository.

How about setting up a temporary user account.  Log in to it and
install your plugin.  Surely if you don't mess around with the
permissions it can only stuff up things that your temporary user has
write access to.

When you are finished, just delete the temporary user.


-- 
Later

David Kirk

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