Sophisto Posted October 25, 2004 Report Share Posted October 25, 2004 Hi! New to linux and have downloaded everest dictionary which seems to be good. AFter unpacking i read in the installation txt file that i should copy libborqt-6.9-qt2.3.so to /usr/lib/ When i try so it says something like "acecss deniied, could not write to /usr/lib/libborqt-6.9-qt2.3.so Why is that? Anybody could help me? Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted October 25, 2004 Report Share Posted October 25, 2004 hi there :) you are trying to install the files as normal user, i guess. in linux, for security reasons, only root has access to the system-tree by default. the normal user can usually only hack in his /home directory. so if you want to copy the stuff to your /usr/... folder, do it as root. you can either do that in a terminal (type su, then root password) or you could log in as root (in case you do not use the default mandrake-login manager but kdm, gdm, xdm or the command line). ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devries Posted October 25, 2004 Report Share Posted October 25, 2004 Only root can copy to '/'. You should be logged in as root before you can copy these files. PS thanks for pointing me to everest. I had never heard of it. Seems an interesting project :) edit: :D too late Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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