On Fri, 21 Jul 2000, Nianwei Xing wrote:
> Hi, debians: > I am a new comer for Debian. I just want to install > acroread on my machine. I am not the super user and > also I have download the linux-ar-405.tar.gz. > Any infomation is appreciated! > > Nianwei acroread is packaged (there is a .deb in any debian site). So you can download it. The NORMAL way to install a package is to ask the sysadmin (the superuser). However, you can try unpacking it (try alien -- hope you have this at least), and then making an exhausting re-configuration (e.g. make it use something like /home/user/mypackage/etc instead of /etc for configuration files). Also not all packages may be installed without root permissions (I hope acroread is not one of them). Hope someone makes a better offer, Pavel