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I am trying to extract a flash installation file to my mozilla/plugins folder but it keeps telling me that I don't have the correct permission to do this as I am not the owner. As I installed the OS and am the only user of the computer I cant see how this is true!! How do I get around this?
When prompted for a password, give the users password
This will work if you have sudo priveledges, and have sudo installed. If you don't, then change to the root user and move the file.
Code:
su
then enter the root user password, sometimes the system administrator password. Be sure to log out of root afterwards.
As repo suggested, sudo is a very useful utility, if you don't yet have it installed. I would suggest getting it and configuring it to allow your standard user access to root commands when you type in your password.
Ok, I've been trying a bit more and managed to get into the folder (I think) although my original problem was still not fixed! In the end it was easy to get flash to work, I just followed the instructions here (http://foxyurl.com/K13) and here (http://foxyurl.com/K14)
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