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[Technomage]

On Sunday 12 February 2006 10:51, Robert N. Eaton wrote:
>
> And I was using su rather than root, hoping to avoid permissions problems.

su can work, but some objects not on the path for your env will not be 
available.

>
> By the way, does Debian in general, and Xandros in particular, have a
> problem with tarballs?  Or have I never learned how to unpack and
> install them? I never had this much trouble when I was using RedHat or
> other .rpm based distro.

I've used debian a lot for compiling. no problems noted.
I often create a dir for the tarball, then untar it there using tar -xvf <name 
of tarball)

thats pretty much all there is to it.