See my previous post #26.
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BrianL,
I did what you said. It worked. But why does it NOT work in GUI???? Before I SOLVE this thread, I want to try it with another file... |
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cd /home/nrc3/Desktop Then cut and paste the commands and their output from your terminal and post it here. Cheers, Evo2. |
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Lorax, your problem was a matter of location
You downloaded the file and saved it in /home/nrc3/Desktop. However when you became root you changed to the /root directory. This is done automatically when you change to root in some cases. This is why i had suggested the command 'pwd'. In your case you had 2 options to installing the flash 10 file. 1. You can change to the correct directory and install it Code:
cd /home/nrc3/Desktop Code:
dpkg -i /home/nrc3/Desktop/filename.deb |
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"dpkg -i packagename.deb" in one directory, while the file was in a different directory. Quote:
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Lorax,
Here is a tip to help you in the future. When you change from your normal user account to root, you can do it 2 ways. You can type 'su' and enter the root password. This will make you root without changing what directory you are in. The other way is to type 'su -l" and enter your root password. This will change you to root and move you to the /root/ directory. |
ok, i must restart my FF. Too slow, brb...
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Evo, worm, brian, Eric, quake! Thank you all! Thumbs-up all around! You all were right, but Worm's statement about shifting user-to-root was balls-to-the-walls dead on!
I am sure that I have seen somewhere, "download this .deb file and double-click, or you can dpkg from terminal..." I thought the icon was to be used in the GUI, no? Why is it there if it really has no use???? Somebody mentioned Synaptics. I have seen that around... I think it belongs in this thread as a (part of a) solution. Please eleborate on what it is and how it is used, and if it is a file that I can download... Now it's time to relax with a Dubian! Thanks, friends! |
Did you start off with KDE, or start with Gnome and add KDE (like I did) when you installed Debian? Synaptic is a GUI package manager, you can browse all the available software and install from it. It comes as standard with Gnome, but if you've just got KDE I think you'll have to insall it using aptitude or apt-get in the terminal:
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I started with Gnome, but can't find any reference to Synaptic on my system. A weird thing, though: I installed Amarok media player today, and now I seem to have a partitial KDE as well!
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Amarok requires KDE so it is likely that kde-base was installed as a dependency for Amarok. Synaptic is a GUI package manager for Gnome. It is a GUI front end for apt-get/aptitude.
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It's in the System => Administration menu. For Gnome, that is.
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