


Please do not type blindly the instructions above first, read any documents called "README" or "INSTALLATION" that you will find in the archive. Typically, what you then do is as follows:Īs you see, only the step actually installing the program requires superuser rights everything else happens just in your home directory, which you own. Very often, such an archive contains software that must be compiled and then installed. If this archive contains something to install in the system, then sudo would be useful at one point or another. Or you can just double-click on the archive from Nautilus (the file manager) to see what's inside. No need to use sudo to unpack the archive.
