How to download a file without installing?

[Mary Ellen Foster]

On 17/04/2008, Anne Wilson <cannewilson at googlemail.com> wrote:
> It's time to admit defeat on this one.  I've set selinux to permissive.  I've
>  rebooted and relabelled.  I can't even get konsole to run, so no command-line
>  work is possible.  I did hope briefly that simply opening the package with
>  the installer might realise that I just wanted a localinstall, but of course
>  you can't add any parameters to that.  It  looks like a dead-end on that
>  laptop.

You could try ctrl-alt-F1 and use the virtual consoles ...

MEF

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Mary Ellen Foster  --  http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/mef/
Informatik 6: Robotics and Embedded Systems, Technische Universität München
and ICCS, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh