Problem installing azureus

[Dotan Cohen]

On 6/6/05, Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-06-06 at 02:16 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> > On 5/29/05, Miguel Enrique Cobá Martínez <m.coba.m at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Ahmed Abdel-Aliem wrote:
> > > > hi
> > > > i have problem installing azureus
> > > > i installed the last version of JRE successfully
> > > > but when i run azureus installation from the terminal i get this
> > > >
> > > > [root at localhost azureus]# ./azureus
> > >
> > > First at all, don't run user application as root, create a normal user
> > > account with
> > > # useradd <username>
> > > and use it for everyday work.
> > >
> >
> > I also install programs as root. I thought that this is how it is
> > done. Otherwise, how could multiple users (we are two on our home
> > machine) both use it?
> >
> > When programs are installed as user (not root), aren't they not
> > accesable by other users?
> 
> Programs should be *installed* by root (so they go in /usr/... etc.,
> which is only writable by root), but they should be *run* as regular
> users.
> 
> Paul.
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It's just that the OP mentioned that
> > when i run azureus installation from the terminal i get this
> > [root at localhost azureus]# ./azureus

Which to me looks like he is installing Azureus. So I didn't
understand the point of mentioning not to run the program as root, as
that was not what he was doing.

As a by-the-way, how am I to know who to trust when I install
software? I have installed many things from sourceforge. Can I be
certain to trust every author on sourceforge? Because I feel like if
I'm downloading something, su, then running (installing) it, I am
doing something unsafe. Not everything is available in yum.

For that matter, how to be sure that all which is included in yum is safe?

Thanks.

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