On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 9:31 AM, Jan <[email protected]> wrote: > > I was trying to install the nvidia drivers for my card and when I > opened t with the following command: "sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-180.29- > pkg1.run", t tells me that it needs to be run as a root. > Two questions: > what does it mean?
The root user has special permissions... ;-) Normall you shouldn't run anything as root, but sometimes certain commands need 'superuser' permissions.. > > how do I do it? :) > Append the command with 'sudo', so 'sudo sh NVI....' -- Christopher Stamper Email: [email protected] Web: http://tinyurl.com/2ooncg gTalk: http://tinyurl.com/6e359r Skype: cdstamper --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ubuntu Linux" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/ubuntulinux?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
