newbie user/root dycotomy

[Douglas Alves]

> 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

Well, searching for MIDI sequencers I came upon rosegarden, which is
listed in Synaptic (old, & new for KDE). Looking up their website, I got
the impression that the Debian package they give for the old version had
a higher patchlevel than the one in the Synaptic repository. So I
downloaded it to my Desktop (I haven't learned where everything ought to
go on a Linux box), but then opening the tar file I couldn't unpack it
into /usr/local as it suggests.

Some time ago I had tried the same for a plug-in from Adobe Reader, with
the same result.

Douglas