run "./install.sh" (from folder) as root????

[wanitto]

I am trying to install the divx codec, and this is what the readme says: run "./install.sh" as root.

I am an absolute beginner. please help.

[Foxheadz]

run

sudo ./install.sh

it will then ask you for a password. if your the only user on your computer then it will probably be your password. The sudo command is put in front of any command to run it as root.

[wanitto]

when i do that it says :

sudo: ./install.sh: command not found

[Purplerob]

try

sudo sh install.sh

[Foxheadz]

not sudo: just sudo ./install.sh

[wanitto]

for sudo sh install it says : sh: Can't open install.sh

and this doesn't make sense, how do i direct it to the folder?

[Foxheadz]

cd to the directory of install.sh

cd path/to/directory

[jocko]

I am trying to install the divx codec, and this is what the readme says: run "./install.sh" as root.

I am an absolute beginner. please help.

As you are an absolute beginner, I guess that you are trying to do things a lot more complicated than they really are.
To get the divx codec (and a lot of other codecs that are not installed by default), just install the package "libavcodec-extra-52".

Open up synaptic (System-->Administration-->synaptic package manager) and search for it. Or install it from the terminal with this simple command:

sudo apt-get install libavcodec-extra-52

There are a bunch of packages (codecs, adobe flash, support for .rar archives, java plugin for firefox etc.) that most people want but that are not installed by default due to their licences, which can be installed by installing the package "ubuntu-restricted-extras".

[sunveer]

After that I got options to install. But when I select by typing 1 in the terminal I got "Compiler is not available to compile modules, aborting..."

[felixdecena]

Also make sure that install.sh script is stored in your disk. If it is not, you may be getting error "command not found"