Permissions

[Adam Membrey]

BravoCharlie wrote:

>Another option is the Root Terminal from the System Tools menu (it will
>pop up a box requesting your password and then open the terminal with
>full administrator rights).
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>Adam Membrey Wrote: 
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>>John wrote:
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>>>Hi
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>>>I'm new to linux. Just installed Ubuntu. I'm trying to install my ADSL
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>>software 
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>>>to /usr/local/bin, but I do not have permission to do it. Please
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>>help.
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>>>John
>>>South Africa
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>>John,
>>Make sure you run any installs as sudo
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Or just type sudo -s :P