need help with permissions/installing

[Arex Bawrin]

Hi, I'm trying to install a Rapidshare commandline downloader, but I am a bit confused with the directions they give for installing:


how to install

download tar archive from here
unpack it into /usr/bin

$ chmod a+x /usr/bin/modrapi
$ modrapi configure

I tried extracting the file to the /usr/bin directory, but it said I did not have permission. Sorry, I tried searching for something like this before I posted.

[BDNiner]

you need to use the command sudo to extract the archive to the directory
/usr/bin. Are you using the command line to extract it or the nautilus (the file manager)?

[oldos2er]

In order to have write access to anything outside your home directory, you need admin privileges. In Ubuntu, do this by prepending the command with "sudo."

sudo tar zxvf filename.tar [assumes the tar file is already in /usr/bin].

sudo chmod a+x /usr/bin/modrapi

etc.

Please read https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RootSudo

[Arex Bawrin]

Well what if I'm using the nautilus file manager?

[Sealbhach]

You can download a .deb of it from this page:

http://mundogeek.net/rapidshare-dl/

Maybe that might be better?


.

[BDNiner]

you can launch the file manager with admin rights by typing


gksudo nautilus


in a terminal window or in the run box (Alt+F2)

be very carefull when running nautilus as root, if you mistakenly delete something then you could be in trouble.

[Arex Bawrin]

Ok, It'll probably be safer via terminal. Thanks for the help!