Solved: Re: Can't install flashplugin.nonfree. ERROR: wget failed to download

On Tue, May 01, 2012 at 05:05:28PM +0900, Han Soo Chang wrote:

Thanks for your help.

It was just that I needed to apt-get install as root, not sudo apt-get.

The following command
# apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree
worked just fine.

$ sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree
failed because the invoked script probably did not have the write permission
for a certain directory.

This is a little bit confusing for a newbie like me.
But, anyway, I can now see the videos on youtube.

Just remember Debian isn't Ubuntu. When you see "sudo blah blah blah"
just run "blah blah blah" as root¹.

Ubuntu specifically sets up sudo, they don't like you being root!
whereas, in Debian, ***YOU*** would have to install sudo and configure
it to get the desired result.

¹ "su -c blah blah blah" is probably better.

"Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet."


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On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 05:07:26PM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote:

On Tue, May 01, 2012 at 05:05:28PM +0900, Han Soo Chang wrote:
> Thanks for your help.
>
> It was just that I needed to apt-get install as root, not sudo apt-get.
>
> The following command
> # apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree
> worked just fine.
>
> $ sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree
> failed because the invoked script probably did not have the write permission
> for a certain directory.
>
> This is a little bit confusing for a newbie like me.
> But, anyway, I can now see the videos on youtube.

Just remember Debian isn't Ubuntu. When you see "sudo blah blah blah"
just run "blah blah blah" as root¹.

Ubuntu specifically sets up sudo, they don't like you being root!
whereas, in Debian, ***YOU*** would have to install sudo and configure
it to get the desired result.

¹ "su -c blah blah blah" is probably better.

?????
I use sudo all the time, and have done so for years.
'Course you have to install it, add your user to the
sudo group, and edit /etc/sudoers with the "visudo"
command first. But all that is very easy.
Install sudo and read "man sudo".
Feel free to ask me if you need further help with it.

❤ ♫ ❤ ♫ ❤ ♫ ❤
Indulekha


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Thanks for your response.

Yes, I installed sudo, and edited the confiugration file using visudo.
That was easy.
And I have been using sudo in all the cases where I needed to be root.
I believed that it gives me better security.

However, in this particular case of installing flashplugin-nonfree,
sudo apt-get failed, but su apt-get succeeded.

What I'm trying to say is that this could be interpreted as a subtle bug,
because it confuses a user like me.


2012/5/2, Indulekha :

On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 05:07:26PM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote:

On Tue, May 01, 2012 at 05:05:28PM +0900, Han Soo Chang wrote:
> Thanks for your help.
>
> It was just that I needed to apt-get install as root, not sudo apt-get.
>
> The following command
> # apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree
> worked just fine.
>
> $ sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree
> failed because the invoked script probably did not have the write
> permission
> for a certain directory.
>
> This is a little bit confusing for a newbie like me.
> But, anyway, I can now see the videos on youtube.

Just remember Debian isn't Ubuntu. When you see "sudo blah blah blah"
just run "blah blah blah" as root¹.

Ubuntu specifically sets up sudo, they don't like you being root!
whereas, in Debian, ***YOU*** would have to install sudo and configure
it to get the desired result.

¹ "su -c blah blah blah" is probably better.

?????
I use sudo all the time, and have done so for years.
'Course you have to install it, add your user to the
sudo group, and edit /etc/sudoers with the "visudo"
command first. But all that is very easy.
Install sudo and read "man sudo".
Feel free to ask me if you need further help with it.

❤ ♫ ❤ ♫ ❤ ♫ ❤
Indulekha


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On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 04:37:16PM +0900, Han Soo Chang wrote:

Thanks for your response.

Yes, I installed sudo, and edited the confiugration file using visudo.
That was easy.
And I have been using sudo in all the cases where I needed to be root.
I believed that it gives me better security.

However, in this particular case of installing flashplugin-nonfree,
sudo apt-get failed, but su apt-get succeeded.

What I'm trying to say is that this could be interpreted as a subtle bug,
because it confuses a user like me.

I don't think it's a bug...
If you add your user to the sudo group and use the line:

yourusername ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL

in /etc/sudoers, everything should work and you'll
get no password prompt. Of course, replace "youusername"
with your actual username. :)

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Indulekha


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On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 6:30 AM, Indulekha wrote:

I don't think it's a bug...
If you add your user to the sudo group and use the line:

yourusername   ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL

in /etc/sudoers, everything should work and you'll
get no password prompt. Of course, replace "youusername"
with your actual username. :)

If you add your user account to /etc/sudoers, there's no need to be in
the sudo group. The configuration in the default /etc/sudoers is
this:

# Allow members of group sudo to execute any command
# (Note that later entries override this, so you might need to move
# it further down)
%sudo ALL=(ALL) ALL

You can just add the NOPASSWORD directive to that line (which I'd not
recommend) if you put the user in the sudo group thusly:

# usermod -G sudo -a username

My recommendation would be to simply use usermod to add your username
to the sudo group and call it done (do not edit /etc/sudoers at all).
You'll then get the same behavior that you see in Ubuntu (with the
exception that root still has a real password).

Chris


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