Password Root Privleges

[jimdeviney]

Good day everyone-
I'm looking for advice-
I have a couple of questions-
(1) I am trying to view videos on Knoppix 6.2 via websites ---youtube... any type of online website.
---it promps me to download adobe flash player---and provides several options --I don't know what one to choose
------yum for linux
------tr.gz for linux
-----.rpm for linux
-----.deb for ubuntu 8.0
-----APT for ubuntu 9.04
--I have tried them but keep running into my second issue when I down load the file and use kpackage to open and install - it says "the action you request needs root privileges -Please enter root's password.
I have gone in the terminal screen and reset/ changed the password to one that I would know and it did with no problems. I tried angain and it wouldn't work.
Also anybody have any ideas how to get the sound to work on email evolution

Thanks in advance
Jim

[rusty]

From the Start menu, choose Accessories, then Root Terminal. In that type:

aptitude update && aptitude install flashplugin-nonfree

When you reopen Iceweasel you should be able to view flash animation.

[Capricorny]

It's the .deb package you need. An alternative to the very good advice about aptitude given above is downloading the .deb package to the home directory, then open a terminal and issue

sudo dpkg -i <name of .deb package file>

The sudo command lets you run commands as root, without logging in as root.