On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 10:24 PM, Tom Horsley <<a href="mailto:tom.horsley@att.net">tom.horsley@att.net</a>> wrote: <div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> On a new fedora 9 install the other day, I was running as root and clicked on the livna repo rpm link on the livna web pages and when the box came up, I clicked on "Go ahead and install this sucker". Then firefox (or someone, anyway) said "Oh no, you don't have permission to install rpms, I can't do that." AARGH! "What do you want for Christmas kid?" "I want to install a genuine Red Ryder rpm directly from firefox as root!" "You'll shoot your eye out, kid!" So just how many idiotic undocumented layers of "helpful" security software do I have to figure out how to use merely to have root permissions when running as root? -- fedora-list mailing list <a href="mailto:fedora-list@redhat.com">fedora-list@redhat.com</a> To unsubscribe: <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list</a> </blockquote></div> ok it's simple just open your terminal, then type: su - then enter the root's password after that type: firefox that will fire up firefox by root so now you can do what ever you want from firefox, but note that anything you'll be doing with firefox will be done as a root user, so if you did some thing wrong things will go bad, but that what I do in your case... just be carfull...