Thanks to everyone who replied to this thread. Both the typing "su" in
the terminal and using the "Add/Remove Software" function worked! Those
will be big helps in the future. I, however, was not able to log on as
"root" but this doesn't matter since I could do it the other ways.
Look forward to more newbie questions.
Thanks,
Steve
Vicky Staubly wrote:
Actually, was the first way you tried the "System" menu,
"Administration",
"Add / Remove Software"? I just tried that myself, typed "galeon" into
the
search field, waited while it searched the online repoisitories, click
the
check-box when it appears, and click "Apply". It will prompt you for the
root password when it gets to the actual installation part.
On Sun, 1 Mar 2009, Vicky Staubly wrote:
On Sun, 1 Mar 2009, Stephen Brownfield wrote:
I am running Fedora 10. I went to download another browser,
Galeon. It stated that "Galeon is part of Fedora Extras, the
community-driven part of Fedora. To install, simply type: yum
install galeon."
I went to terminal and typed: "yum install galeon." I was told that
I did not have privileges to do that. I know my root user password,
but how do I identify myself as the root user when using the
terminal. Root user is not one of the choices when I log on. What
should I do?
To do something as root, from a terminal window, you can do that 2 ways:
su
<--- "su" will ask you for the root password
yum install galeon
exit <--- this will quit being root and go back to being you
or
sudo yum install root
<--- "sudo" will ask you for the root password
To log in as root from the login screen, try selecting the "other"
option... I believe it will let you type in the username (in this
case "root").
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