What's this FUD about installing FatDog64 from a browser?

[OleBob]

Although I got paid to support all versions of windoze since it's inception, (and thus stayed employed & occupied FULL TIME), I've only recently had the real opportunity (retired) to become a linux noob and dump M$ completely.

Google will quickly return tens of thousands of hits about "insufficient access privileges" problems, and hundreds of posts from paranoid control freaks about the dangers of running as root and the problems that would ensue - thus I searched for a distro with sanity and found "puppy" - Designed to run as root!

Then, fatdog moved to the top of my "Try It Out" list because of http://distro.ibiblio.org/fatdog/web/ and the quotes "Fatdog has become an independent, mature 64-bit Linux distribution while still keeping true to Puppy Linux spirit: small, fast and efficient." and "At around 250MB, Fatdog boots up to a complete desktop environment ready for use; most everyday application is already included."

Great! But then I read further down and found "Note: Do not attempt to install directly from the web browser - the web browser does not have sufficient rights to install packages." !!

Huh? Has FatDog returned to the "Fear ROOT" insanity found elsewhere? Would someone care to enlighten me? Thanks...

[dancytron]

Read this.

http://puppylinux.com/technical/root.htm

and this

http://distro.ibiblio.org/fatdog/web/faqs/login.html

Basically, you can set programs that access the internet to run under user "spot" which has limited rights, which means it can't install. Just save it and click on it in file manager (which runs as root).

[Ted Dog]

Yes its a pain.. never understood why kirk and JB setup such a spot under root methods, defeating one of the best parts orginal puppylinux. Not easy to remove spot, but you can start seamonkey or firefox as root from CLI and avoid the bite of spot.

run as spot has tripped me up so many ways. wasted so much time supporting my websites and couldn't upload changes or other why did it work issues.

[Ted Dog]

too be clear, its just the method. prefer a clear divide between root and spot like login as either spot or root etc. I would log into spot when surfing web etc. and root if I need to upgrade.
Other mini distros can be run in multiuser login modes why not puppylinux or Fatdog64.

[kirk]

If you don't like the browser being ran by user spot, it's easy enough to change:

http://distro.ibiblio.org/fatdog/web/fa ... -spot.html

If you want to login as something other than root, the second half of the link below describes how to do that:

http://distro.ibiblio.org/fatdog/web/faqs/login.html

[Ted Dog]

second link doesn't work on my Android phone


but this was posted earlier in thread... currently playing with Wary64.iso I keep trying fatdog64 stuff and its not in Wary64 Wary can open fatdogs multisession squashfs files which is cool.