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I think all you have to do is right-click on emelfm and then start it as superuser.

I think all you have to do is right-click on emelfm and then start it as superuser

Quote (intel.ectual @ Mar. 18 2007,13:12)

Alright, so I need to set everything for my own use at "/home/mine" and dont mess with anything from "/" just for normal use.

Just use /home/dsl for your stuff. If you want a separate directory for your own stuff, just use /home/dsl/mine. This will make things much easier for you (especially since a lot of the scripts in DSL work for user dsl rather than as "mine").

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Thanks, but if I do need permissions to "/" to do anything in the future, how can I get access? I can get it in BASH when I'm su or root, but I can't in emelfm...

You can start emelfm as root. Right click on the emelfm icon and elect "emelfm as super user." From aterm:
su emelfm &

Etc.

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Also, if I want to install programs, where/how do I do that?

Depends which version you're using and how it's installed. Frugal or hard drive? Earlier versions have (and future ones will have) a menu entry to enable apt.

There's a menu entry for "mydsl browser" under net. This tool browses the mydsl repository for various extension types (dsl, unc, uci). UNC and UCI extensions are suitable for frugal installs, not so much for traditional hard drive installs. If you want to enable apt-get and you don't have an earlier version that lets you do that from the menu, there's an extension for that in the repository. That will allow you to use synaptic to choose files from the Debian pool (old stable by default; upgrade above that at your own risk). You can also use apt-get from a shell instead of synaptic. You just have to enable apt first.

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For instance, I have NVu, a WYSIWYG HTML editor for Linux. How would I set this up?

It depends which version it is, if it's a binary or source package, and how many dependencies it requires that you don't have. Just because you're running Linux doesn't mean you're home free. You usually have to meet certain dependencies before you either add/compile and run applications (btw, DSL doesn't come with GCC so you'll have to add that if you choose to compile applications from source). I don't know which version of nvu is in Debian old stable -- or even if there is one, but I know there are others like bluefish available. I think there's also a verison in the mydsl GTK2 section.

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Also, one more thing: How do I access a usb drive? Is it something like "/dev/usb"?

Your USB devices -- thumbdrives, mp3players, cameras, etc. -- should be detected by hotplug and mount points should be set sequentially (sda1, sdb1, sdc1, etc.) in /mnt. You'll need to use emelfm as root. FWIW, you don't mount devices in /dev.

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