----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian Parish" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "newbie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002 1:55 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] installing rpms
> Hmmmm - curious. The fact that it worked when you moved (copied?) it is > a little weird. You were doing this as root right? > When I got the 'curiosity' I was doing it as root via the terminal by typing in su. When the install actually worked, I had logged out and logged in again as root into KDE. The su command had worked, as the command line changed to display root as user. If I get it again I will do as you suggest and paste the contents to the list. Thanks again for your wonderfully clear explanations - you should write a newbie book :-))) Heather
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