newbie user/root dycotomy

[Mark Roach]

On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 18:21 -0400, Douglas Alves wrote:
> I've downloaded some packages from universe and elsewhere, and saved
> them in my /home/.../Desktop but when I want to unpack them
> in /usr/local I'm told I don't have permission!

For what it's worth, that probably won't work anyway. Most packages
cannot be installed someplace other than --prefix as specified at
compile time. Is there some reason why you can't just install the
packages normally? If so, your best bet is probably going to be pretty
cli intensive (compiling from source)

-Mark