Chris Montgomery wrote: > > Thanks for the comeback, Andreas. Comments inline below. >
You're welcome. > > Generally though it's better to be root when installing things. > > > > Since I am the only user on this machine, would this really matter? My > impression was that if programs are going to be run primarily by a user > (not root), then it was better to install it as the user and not root. Do > most Linux users prefer to install apps as root? Yep! ;-) Well at least I do, and I do believe that is the common practice. It's just simpler to do it as root, and if you give a regular user more permission to system directories it's easier to do damage to the system. > <snip> > > > > Unfortunately you can't change permissions on a vfat filesystem, but if > > security is not a concern you could just give rw permission to user > > "other" on the directories you need to write to. I don't know if there > > is a better way than this, but at least it works. > > > > I'll have another go at this. I tried to do this in the Midnight Commander > file manager but it didn't work, maybe I best do this in terminal. Well actually I was wrong on this one, if you look closely I even contradicted myself in the same sentence. You should just go with Tammy's advice instead. Andreas _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
