[Klug-general] This sudo thingy in Kubuntu

[jvmmneq a]

Although what George says is the best thing to do, did you make the file
executable? (chmod +x)

james

2009/4/2 Mike Rentell <michael.rentell at ntlworld.com>

> A cry for help (again!). I'm fiddling with Kubuntu under VBox and it all
> seems to work but I can get no web pages with java bits to work so I
> have downloaded:
>
> jre-6u13-linux-i586.bin
>
> from a website but I can't get it to run and install. I've tried sudo
> jre-6u13-linux-i586.bin but it comes back immediately and says that it
> isn't authorised. It doesn't ask for my password which is what I thought
> was supposed to happen with this sudo thingy.
>
> I do wish Ubuntu would allow root passwords. Can anyone enlighten me?
> I'm obviously doing something stupid.
>
> MikeR
>
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