Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3767 mails)

[Per Kustemo <per.kustemo@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks alot all of you for the advice :)....
Will take a closer look at this.
/Per

On 2/10/06, Fergus Wilde <fwilde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thursday 09 February 2006 16:48, Per Kustemo wrote:
> > On 2/9/06, Ken Schneider <suse-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2006-02-09 at 12:47 +0100, Per Kustemo wrote:
> > > > What is the crrect way to install updates on already installed program.
> > > > I updated the Azureus today and as a common user I have no right to
> > > > update that program.
> > > > The update function in the program works fine an downloads the update
> > > > to the tmp dir but when it tries to update it fails, cause of my
> > > > rights in the filesystem of course.
> > > > My question is.
> > > > Is there a way to like in windows to "run as" admin or in this case
> > > > root on a single program?
> > > > Or is there another easy way?
> > > > I have fixed this logged in as root but still would like to know the
> > > > correct way :)....sux
> > >
> > > Yes there is:
> > >
> > > sux program followed by the root password.
> >
> > Is the sux program already installed and how do I use it.
> > Tried to install it with apt-get install sux but it seems to be the
> > wrong way cause I got this msg "Couldn't find package sux"
> > /Per
>
> It will be installed already. sux is a Suse method of invoking su so as to get
> you a root shell that's able to use the X window system. Have a careful look
> at man su and info su to see the details of what sux is based on. You'll see
> there are various clever aspects to the whole thing.
>
> Good luck
> Fergus
>
> >
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> > > Ken Schneider
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> > >
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