[mrtg] Installing MTRG

[Richard F. Hart II]

If you are using debian or ubuntu, do the following:
sudo su -
will make you root

or do "sudo apt-get install mrtg"
This will give you root privs.
Richard

-- 
Richard Hart
I.T. Services, Network Analyst
Christopher Newport University
rhart at cnu.edu

On 10/25/07, Joel Roberts <Joel.Roberts at pinkardcc.com> wrote:
>
>  Have you tried launching a root terminal and running aptitude from there?
> You should not receive any permission denied errors running as root.
>
>
>  ------------------------------
>
> *From:* mrtg-bounces at lists.oetiker.ch [mailto:
> mrtg-bounces at lists.oetiker.ch] *On Behalf Of *Pili Muñoz Gargallo
> *Sent:* Tuesday, October 23, 2007 4:18 AM
> *To:* mrtg at lists.oetiker.ch
> *Subject:* [mrtg] Installing MTRG
>
>
>
> Good Morning,
> my name is Pilar and i would need some help for installing MRTG.
> I am ashamed to recognize that I wasn't be able to install zlib.
>
> what happens is:
>
> crowd at esquina:/usr/local/src$  wget
> http://www.gzip.org/zlib/zlib-1.1.4.tar.gz
> --12:09:30--  http://www.gzip.org/zlib/zlib-1.1.4.tar.gz
>            => `zlib- 1.1.4.tar.gz'
> Resolviendo www.gzip.org... 213.91.2.150
> Conectando a www.gzip.org|213.91.2.150|:80... conectado.
> Petición HTTP enviada, esperando respuesta... 200 OK
> Longitud: 181,144 (177K) [application/x-gzip]
> zlib-1.1.4.tar.gz: Permiso denegado
>
> No se puede escribir en `zlib-1.1.4.tar.gz' (Permiso denegado).
>
> it means like access denied. You may think that is a silly question or
> something like that, but it 's now when i am starting working on linux
> operating system and i don't know if it is an standard error or i am doing
> something wrong.
>
> Thank you very much for your time
>
> PIli
>
> I should apologize for my non-fluent englishint he case i had made
> mistakes
>
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