CompXT Posted July 9, 2004 Posted July 9, 2004 I am trying to get Mozilla Firefox installed but I need to be logged in as the owner so that I can have write access to the file system. How in the hell do I do this. Sorry about this but I just started using Linux Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
d3bruts1d Posted July 9, 2004 Posted July 9, 2004 As owner or root? You can log in as root, and install anything. Or issue a su command and the root password to become root when loged in as anyone else. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CompXT Posted July 9, 2004 Posted July 9, 2004 I can log into root in the terminal, but how do I download something into the directory I want? When I select the dir that I want the file in it says that it's not writeable. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest FxXP Posted July 9, 2004 Posted July 9, 2004 If you created a folder as root, but are trying to save to that folder as a user that does not have root access, you will have that error sput back at you. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CompXT Posted July 9, 2004 Posted July 9, 2004 Hmm. What do I need to do then? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest FxXP Posted July 9, 2004 Posted July 9, 2004 Create a folder as the user that does not have root access. Save the firefox gz file in that folder. Go into xterm into that folder and run tar -zxvf filename.tar.gz (the file that you saved from the mozilla site). If the file does not end with .gz, use tar -xvf. Once that is done, go into the folder that would have been created by tar and run firefox or firefox-bin as root. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CompXT Posted July 9, 2004 Posted July 9, 2004 When I click properties on the computer Icon and go to permissions it has Owner, Group, Others and all of them only have read access. At the bottom it says "You are not the owner, so you can't change these permissions. I also have some little Lock Icons nect to the computer, home, and trash. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GTSticky Posted July 9, 2004 Posted July 9, 2004 man chown i think.. it's been a while since I needed linux to run showeq Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Propane Posted July 10, 2004 Posted July 10, 2004 man chown i think.. it's been a while since I needed linux to run showeq chmod too Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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