On Sunday 19 June 2005 18:03, Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Saturday 2005-06-18 at 17:40 -0700, John R. Sowden wrote:
Carlos just dropped me a note saying that rpm can only be used by root, although I do not understand why I didn't get a "command not found", possibly due to the display options in rpm.
I probably misled you a bit. A user can run rpm, of course, but only for queries and such. To install or remove packages you need to be root, simply because the rpm databases are writeable only by root, and because the destination places for installation of anything except your home dir can only be written by root.
Ie, installing/unistalling is a root task.
As it appears that I might have to download and undo the .tgz files, could you please tell me the commands (as usaer, not root).
Notice that dosemu is included in the distro. You do not need that.
-- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
Thanks for the response. It turns out that some programs, including dosemu, are not on the CD's, only the DVD's. It would be nice if the Yast program indicated this, as dosemu did not answer any searches during the install, but when I used Yast, it showed up in the search. When installing dosemu, the install is different for a root install vs. a user install. I wanted a user install. The solution was to download the two .tgz files and install using tar. Now I'm running into permission issues with my partitions, but I am preparing a separate msg so there is no thread confusion. Thanks, John