<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Hi Ari, I do this now for those tasks that I need a file manager for and need root acces. I have a panel icon for a sudo Nautilus. Properties are Command "gksudo nautilus" It works for me. I use a different icon so I dont' mix it up with my user mode Nautilus and have had no trouble with it (other than Nautilus' frequent crashes in any mode!) A nice tool, but not as stable as I'd like. <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">Kind Regards Russ <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.windsorcycles.com.au">http://www.windsorcycles.com.au</a> </pre> Ari Torhamo wrote: <blockquote cite="mid1106272059.3881.63.camel@localhost.localdomain" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">to, 2005-01-20 kello 18:21 -0400, Douglas Alves kirjoitti: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">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! What would be the way to go? (I'm trying to keep away from the Command line as much as possible) </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> Here's another newbie who wants to keep away from the command line :-) I guess you might run Nautilus with root privileges, but when I once asked about this someone said that doing this is definitely a no-no - I don't know why. It would be good to be able to do "sudo" in Nautilus - you would just give your password as you do when you launch Synaptic and then just start messing up your system. We GUI people just are not (yet?) equal with CLI people ;-) Ayway, I think you need root priviledges for doing anything outside your home directory. I'm sorry that I can't give you much more than sympathy here. Maybe people who actually know something will tell you more. Regards, Ari Torhamo </pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>