<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Pascal Khoury wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:908007.24996.qm@web26110.mail.ukl.yahoo.com" type="cite"> <style type="text/css"></style> <div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div> should be owned by root.root (what does this mean??) and be copied to /tmp<br> <br> </div> </div> </blockquote> You should leave the file zipped.<br> root-root are the files owner/group permissions <br> If you access files via a graphical tool:<br> right-click the file; choose 'permissions' tab, set owner and group to 'root'<br> else use 'chown root.root filename' in terminal (subbing your filename)<br> After you have changed the file permissions you continue with your install to install docs, depending how you were installing in the first place.<br> or, in a terminal: sudo dpkg --configure -a<br> should tidy up.<br> I don't know why Ubuntu does it this way - they should either install it or not IMHO.<br> Eddie<br> <br> <br> </body> </html>