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I am wondering if I did something wrong in the initial Arch Linux install.
Just about every time I use pacman to install a package I have to go track down and fix file permissions so I can run the program as a user. Is this normally how things are done? Or am I doing something wrong?
I use pacman with sudo, because it will not work otherwise. So I use sudo pacman -S <package> OR sudo pacman -U <aur package> after using makepkg.
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Any apps in particular?
To answer your question: no, this doesn't sound right.
Last edited by karol (2011-08-15 15:07:45)
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chromium, xfburn, and firefox to name three.
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And what is the error you get?
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permission denied errors. I have to chown or chmod the executables to run them. Also my ~/.config dir was owned by root, had to chown that.
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I use pacman with sudo, because it will not work otherwise.
pacman isn't supposed to work otherwise.
but the installed packages shouldn't need sudo.
There's no such thing as a stupid question, but there sure are a lot of inquisitive idiots !
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Binary executables are typically installed with root:root ownership and 755 permissions.
What are you seeing on your system (before chown/chmod, of course)?
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Running out to work. Will take my laptop and post the info when I can.
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