[Klug-general] This sudo thingy in Kubuntu

[Mike Rentell]

Ha!. Now that looks seriously like something I had forgotten to do. I 
fiddle with such things so rarely that wheezes like this get lost in my 
geriatric brain. Many thanks.

MikeR

jvmmneq a wrote:
> 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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