Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. a écrit : > In <h8v7gk$d0...@ger.gmane.org>, Emanoil Kotsev wrote: >> thveillon.debian wrote: >>> Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: >>>> On Qui, 17 Set 2009, Andrei Popescu wrote: >>>>> I'm curious, why are you indicating use of sudo? It's not even >>>>> installed/configured by default in Debian... >>>> Ubuntu influence, I'd bet. >>> It's offered as an install option, at least it was the last time I >>> installed from a testing netinstall image. >>> Of course Ubuntu did a neat job advertising sudo, it's spreading all >>> over (and it's great, it's a nice tool in a multiuser environment, just >>> doesn't make sens the way Ubuntu uses it...). >> guys ubuntu did not introduce sudo. >> >> It's normal way to run commands as root. > > Maybe today. However, "su" existed long before "sudo" and is the canonical > way to execute commands as root. > > I don't use "su"; my root user account is locked and I use "sudo" > exclusively, > on Debian. I used it on Gentoo first (not installed by default), then Debian > (not installed by default), then Ubuntu (installed by default, but I still > had > to configure it), then openSUSE (not installed by default, and my root > account > can't be locked because my YaST don't know how to ask for root permissions > via > sudo). > > While calling the use of "sudo" an Ubuntu influence is jumping to > conclusions, > many "old-skool" UNIX and Linux users are surprised at the mention of "sudo" > since they expect commands needing root to "simply" be executed at a root > prompt. > > This is all off-topic anyway; it's not helping get skype installed. IIRC, it > should be available from either non-free or debian-multimedia repositories > and > installable via aptitude.
Since we are talking Ubuntu, this is **NOT** good practice, but if for some reasons the static package from skype doesn't work for you, you can grab the medibuntu x86-64 packages. They've been working fine here for ages. Use Hardy packages if on Lenny, Jaunty on anything else. http://packages.medibuntu.org/ I use "skype-common" and "skype-static" or "skype" packages, they both work for me. On amd64 you'll need ia32libs and lib32nss-mdns. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
