On Mon, 2005-06-06 at 02:16 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: > On 5/29/05, Miguel Enrique Cobá Martínez <m.coba.m@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Ahmed Abdel-Aliem wrote: > > > hi > > > i have problem installing azureus > > > i installed the last version of JRE successfully > > > but when i run azureus installation from the terminal i get this > > > > > > [root@localhost azureus]# ./azureus > > > > First at all, don't run user application as root, create a normal user > > account with > > # useradd <username> > > and use it for everyday work. > > > > I also install programs as root. I thought that this is how it is > done. Otherwise, how could multiple users (we are two on our home > machine) both use it? > > When programs are installed as user (not root), aren't they not > accesable by other users? Programs should be *installed* by root (so they go in /usr/... etc., which is only writable by root), but they should be *run* as regular users. Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
