Helping new users - basic starts and attitudes

[Satish Balay]

On Sun, 5 Dec 2004, Jim Cornette wrote:
> > > On Sat, 4 Dec 2004, Matthew Wood wrote:

> > > > I am very new to linux, in fact i have only used it for about 2
> > > > hours before i wrote this email. i cannot write anything to the
> > > > following directory /user/local/lib. I need to be able to, so that i
> > > > an install MPlayer. How can i resolve this.
> 
> You have to be the root user to install in this directory. This is similar to
> administrator in Windows. After you get the program installed in the desired
> directory, it should run fine as user joe normal.

But if the primary purpose of this is to install mplayer - check out
precompiled rpms form http://freshrpms.net - ( and use yum to install
the required dependencies)

Lots of small howtos listed at http://fedoranews.com

Satish