I wanted to install jackett and sonarr, they are complicated to use as is, moreover I am using Ubuntu. I am following fuidleine for installing jackett with STUPID command line making it EXTRA difficult. But now I have to change directory ownerships and what nots. I am the ONLY user on this machine. I want to own everything by default I am root I am admin I am user I am all. How do I make this happen instead of sending stupid commands all the time and making using Linux EASY. Before anyone getting on about Security I don’t give 2centa about it .I just want to use and install and do whatever I wish.

How do I make this happen Forever, once inför all.

  • bizdelnick@lemmy.ml
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    6 months ago

    Before anyone getting on about Security I don’t give 2centa about it

    So Linux is not for you. Take a look at MS DOS 4.0, its sources were published few days ago.

  • d416@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    I for one upvoted this post. I am tired of nanny state OSs restricting what we want to do thinking they are protecting the poor user who surely they must classify as noobs. We need a free open LIBERTARIAN OS now.

  • TheCheddarCheese@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 months ago

    I probably just fell for the most obvious ragebait in existence

    but in the unlikely event that you are actually being serious then owning everything would probably wreck your entire system at some point whether directly or not. and looking through the github page it doesn’t seem that hard to install to me, just copy paste one command and you’re done with it… idk never actually had the need to use it.

    • Alborlin@lemmy.worldOP
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      6 months ago

      Yah if it was simple as that in Linux. When the page says do chown 775 xyz , the Linux throes error as can’t modify, then I go down rabbit hole…honestly it’s far from simple

      • lemmyreader@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        6 months ago

        Yah if it was simple as that in Linux. When the page says do chown 775 xyz , the Linux throes error as can’t modify, then I go down rabbit hole…honestly it’s far from simple

        To be able to use chown (Change Owner) you need to have the powers to do so. Your default user does not have such powers when the target is not yet owned by that user. Perhaps you did not use sudo, like sudo chown 775 xyz So I guess the documentation of that software installation howto is lacking specifics for Ubuntu (Ubuntu uses sudo, but e.g. Debian does not do so and defaults to su).

      • greedytacothief@lemmy.world
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        6 months ago

        “chown” is a command for changing the users and groups who own a file. But the options “775 xyz” are used with chmod, a command for changing what permissions the owners and groups have over a file. I’m not sure what you’re trying to do so I can’t tell what part of the command is wrong.

        Either way you can run a command with elevated permissions by putting “sudo” in front of the command. Or by switching to the root user by using the command “su” or “sudo -i” (if you have sudo access, but don’t know the root password)

  • bloodfart@lemmy.ml
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    6 months ago

    Back up before you do this and read why it won’t do what you want first.

    Here’s how to do what you’re asking: chown -R user /

    You’ll need to be root or use sudo to do that.

    Here’s why it won’t do what you want: the arr programs each have their own user and group and they expect to be able to freely modify files they are allowed to through the permission system and to be prevented from doing so for files they’re not supposed to touch through that same system. It doesn’t matter if your user has ownership of all files on the system because your username isn’t the one those programs will be operating under when they go to move something from your incoming directory to your storage drive.

    You could change them to all use the same username, yours, by editing their config files, but that’s not recommended and the programs are not tested in that configuration or designed to be run that way.

    Not only will operating a single user system not fix the problem you’re having, making your username the single user isn’t the right way to do it. Running in single user mode is done as the root user and it has a special run level, 1. There are five other run levels above it (not counting zero, which is when the computer is not running).

    Tldr: don’t do what I just told you how to, it won’t fix your problems. Learn the permissions system and fix your permissions problems instead or use a platform for the arrs that you’re more comfortable with.