log in as root

[raymond house]

Hi Brian, I downloaded Festival from the CSTR uk site recently but the
installation instructions come from FreeOS.com and they date from 2000 so I
think that Festival is probably a newer version. Anyway I tried your
intructions and I get "command not found"  Ray

On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 9:43 AM, Brian McKee <brian.mckee at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 6:45 AM, raymond house <raymondh40 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi, I am trying to get Festival, a text to speech program, up and running
> > and at one point I need to log in as root? how do I do that?  Ray
>
> Hi Ray
>
> You almost certainly don't have to log in as root - but you do need to
> run some programs as root.
> Sounds like the instructions you are following don't explain how to
> use sudo instead of 'logging in' as root.
>
> Rather than rewrite those instructions, do this - open a terminal and
> type 'sudo -i'
> Give it *your* password when it asks for one. That 'logs you in as
> root' for as long as that terminal is open.
>
> Alternatively, you could hit Alt+F2, then type 'gksu gnome-terminal'
> in the run box.
>
> HTH,
> Brian
>
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