Problems with installing

[Hydrothrax]

Hi,

I'm having some problems with installing things, like firefox plugins. while trying to install Flash Player, I got:

E: ERROR: could not create configuration directory /home/root/.synaptic - mkdir (2 No such file or directory)

I'm still sorta new to Linux, and have had similar difficulties while installing other applications. Any help would be appreciated. thanks! :)

[mssever]

Hi,

I'm having some problems with installing things, like firefox plugins. while trying to install Flash Player, I got:

E: ERROR: could not create configuration directory /home/root/.synaptic - mkdir (2 No such file or directory)

I'm still sorta new to Linux, and have had similar difficulties while installing other applications. Any help would be appreciated. thanks! :)
Some questions: First, can you install from the command line?
sudo aptitude install packagename That can help narrow down the problem.

Second, I'm wondering why you're getting an error about /home/root (which by default doesn't exist). Please post the line beginning "root" from /etc/passwd.

[Hydrothrax]

Second, I'm wondering why you're getting an error about /home/root (which by default doesn't exist). Please post the line beginning "root" from /etc/passwd.

..............um...what am I supposed to do?

[sorry for being so stupid D8 I blame it on having used Windows for so long...]

EDIT: Nevermind, I think I solved the problem from here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=699130 Thanks anyway! ^^