If you are using debian or ubuntu, do the following: sudo su - will make you root
or do "sudo apt-get install mrtg" This will give you root privs. Richard -- Richard Hart I.T. Services, Network Analyst Christopher Newport University [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 10/25/07, Joel Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Have you tried launching a root terminal and running aptitude from there? > You should not receive any permission denied errors running as root. > > > ------------------------------ > > *From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Pili Muñoz Gargallo > *Sent:* Tuesday, October 23, 2007 4:18 AM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* [mrtg] Installing MTRG > > > > Good Morning, > my name is Pilar and i would need some help for installing MRTG. > I am ashamed to recognize that I wasn't be able to install zlib. > > what happens is: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/local/src$ wget > http://www.gzip.org/zlib/zlib-1.1.4.tar.gz > --12:09:30-- http://www.gzip.org/zlib/zlib-1.1.4.tar.gz > => `zlib- 1.1.4.tar.gz' > Resolviendo www.gzip.org... 213.91.2.150 > Conectando a www.gzip.org|213.91.2.150|:80... conectado. > Petición HTTP enviada, esperando respuesta... 200 OK > Longitud: 181,144 (177K) [application/x-gzip] > zlib-1.1.4.tar.gz: Permiso denegado > > No se puede escribir en `zlib-1.1.4.tar.gz' (Permiso denegado). > > it means like access denied. You may think that is a silly question or > something like that, but it 's now when i am starting working on linux > operating system and i don't know if it is an standard error or i am doing > something wrong. > > Thank you very much for your time > > PIli > > I should apologize for my non-fluent englishint he case i had made > mistakes > > _______________________________________________ > mrtg mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.oetiker.ch/cgi-bin/listinfo/mrtg > >
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