[thedude704]

well im sort of new to linux and will be taking some classes next semester on using it. however after playing around with ubuntu for a bit i decided to go to what i would be using in school which is fedora. unfortunately my laptop is too new for 8 as it just came out and i couldnt use 8, i downloaded the 9 preview and im having a little trouble. im trying to enable my repositories and update and it says i have no connection and it cant retrieve the metadata.. which is obviously incorrect as im writing this post on the same machine and same connection.

problem 2 is video drivers which i downloaded the beta version of 173.08 nividia driver to accomodate my nvidia 9500m gs, everything goes well i press CTL-ALT-F1 to go to command line and type my user name and pass then browse to the folder where the file is and type (as instructed from that website) "sh *filename*.run" and it starts the nvidia installer which tells me it can only be run as root.... so i go back adn try to run "sudo sh *filename*.run" and it asks me for my password and after i enter it i get a message that says im not in the sudoer file and this will be reported.

HELP!

another question i had is once im in the command prompt by pressing ctl-alt-f1 is there a command to reload the GUI?

if anyone can help that would be amazing thanks again in advance

matt

[yancek]

You need to edit the sudoers file which should be in the directory /etc but you need to edit it with 'visudo'

At terminal type: 'su -u', this should work on fedora and prompts for password, just type 'visudo'. If it does not work, login as root and type 'visudo'. Can also (as root) do '/usr/sbin/visudo' as that is where visudo is.

The exit command forces the system to exit runlevel 1 and revert to the default runlevel for the system. You can also use the init command (init 5) to return to runlevel 5.

[khafa]

hi,


- to return to GUI after ctrl + alt + f1 you do ctrl + alt + f7

- for the yum error please post here the error messages you got and the command you run and give us more details about your network (are you using a
proxy? )

- as for running sh *filename*.run" i dont think you need to sudo it as you wont be doing it often. you might just run it like this:

su -c "sh *filename*.run"

this will ask you the root password . when you type the password it will run the command as root and return to normal user

[thedude704]

i do not know how to log in as root, and typing su -u didnt do anything said U was an invalid option for su


sorry for being so noobish

[khafa]

hi,


to switch to root you just need to do "su - "and press Enter as follows:

su -

[ozar]

Originally Posted by thedude704

i do not know how to log in as root, and typing su -u didnt do anything said U was an invalid option for su

If you are logged in as regular user, go to a terminal and enter this code:

su -

...enter root password when requested.

Doing that should give you root permissions for admin tasks.

Edit: oops... that khafa is fast today!

[thedude704]

i dont know what a yum error is, and i tried su -c and it said
bash: NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-173.08-pkg2.run: command not found

[thedude704]

ok update.. i figured out what u were trying to tell me and ive ran is as root the error i got will follow hopefully the screen shot took so i can type it hold on a sec

[thedude704]

ok the nvidia installer is up and it displays the following message

ERROR: unable find the system utility 'Id'; please make sure you have the 'binutils' installed. If you do have binutils installed then please check that 'Id' is in your PATH.

*edit* on the note of the other problem im having (the updating and repositories, which is why im trying to install these drivers manually lol) the message i get when i click on update system is as follows "NO network connection available There is no network connection available please check your connection settings and try again. More Details: Problem loading repository metadata, this can be caused by network problems or repository misconfigurations."

[khafa]

please run the next command

rpm -qa | grep binutils

if it returns something like binutils-xx.yy.zz then you have binutils installed.