permission to Opt Folder?

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  1. boodles

    boodles

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    Hi there

    I have had a prb with my aspire one linpus since i decided to update to firefox 3 about a month ago. I followed this guide http://macles.blogspot.com/2008/07/inst ... 0022861288

    Unfortunately i don't have permission to "opt" folder and cant extract the files to it anyone know how i can get permission? the only way for mr to run firefox now is in terminal and its the old firefox 2.

    really frustrated with this linpus, I even tried to reinstall linpus using a thumb drive and cd recovery and i got error 39

    any help with opt folder permissions greatly appreciated

    TIA Boodles
     
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    Use sudo.

    Cheers.
     
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    yes thats what I use sudo from macles guide.

    is there a sudo command i can use to get permissions to all folders?
     
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    You could open a terminal and do:

    sudo su -

    And this will give you superuser rights for as long as you are using that particular terminal session.

    Cheers.
     
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    when i do that it says root@local host user
    and i still cant write to opt
     
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