On Sunday 06 March 2005 22:49, Julie Sloan wrote: > On Sunday 06 March 2005 03:35 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: > > download the correct .tar.gz file > > To uncompress the file just click on it with konqueror. > > > > You will need to be root user to do that so open up a root copy of > > konqueror with Alt+F2 and type 'kdesu konqueror' in the box. > > kdesu konqueror! how cool! this is handy to know. > > (Alt-F2 does nothing on my box - is this a keyboard problem?) I was assuming KDE was the Window Manager. Alt+F2 in KDE gives you a "Run box" to enter a single command.
kdesu is simply a way to run a single command as root. The alternative is to open a terminal and enter su to become root user, then all commands will run as root. e.g. konqueror & (The '&' runs the command in background so the terminal can do other things.) derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org
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