On Sun, 5 Dec 2004, Jim Cornette wrote: > > > On Sat, 4 Dec 2004, Matthew Wood wrote: > > > > I am very new to linux, in fact i have only used it for about 2 > > > > hours before i wrote this email. i cannot write anything to the > > > > following directory /user/local/lib. I need to be able to, so that i > > > > an install MPlayer. How can i resolve this. > > You have to be the root user to install in this directory. This is similar to > administrator in Windows. After you get the program installed in the desired > directory, it should run fine as user joe normal. But if the primary purpose of this is to install mplayer - check out precompiled rpms form http://freshrpms.net - ( and use yum to install the required dependencies) Lots of small howtos listed at http://fedoranews.com Satish
