I have searched and failed to find an answer to my problem, perhaps I am
not asking the right question. On my desktop there is a folder
containing some software called VueScan. To run the software I open the
folder, find a blue square standing on a point and double click and away
we go. What I
Norman Silverstone wrote:
I have searched and failed to find an answer to my problem, perhaps I am
not asking the right question. On my desktop there is a folder
containing some software called VueScan. To run the software I open the
folder, find a blue square standing on a point and double
Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
Norman Silverstone wrote:
I have searched and failed to find an answer to my problem, perhaps I am
not asking the right question. On my desktop there is a folder
containing some software called VueScan. To run the software I open the
folder, find a blue square
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Presumably the blue square has a name and an executable linked to it?
Right-click on it, choose Properties.
Then in a terminal do sudo {path to file name}/file name}
If its a graphical application, I would suggest using gksudo instead of
sudo as that sets the enviroment
Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
David Jones wrote:
If its a graphical application, I would suggest using gksudo instead
of sudo as that sets the enviroment more appropriately.
Not come across that before - what's the difference?
I'm not an expert, but this website explains the
On 01/07/09 10:53, Norman Silverstone wrote:
I have searched and failed to find an answer to my problem, perhaps I am
not asking the right question. On my desktop there is a folder
containing some software called VueScan. To run the software I open the
folder, find a blue square standing on a
snip
It is *really* bad practice to run anything as root unless you really
need to (especially when the app isn't even open source).
I am interested as to why you want to run it as root?
If it is for your flatbed scanner and you need root access to the
scanner then the scanner is
