Jacques, Many thanks for your help - I managed to install the deb file, and ran sudo modprobe agrserial, but cannot see any obvious fax modem capability yet. Have I missed something? Kind Regards, Ian On 28/08/11 11:07, Jacques Goldberg wrote: > > This is a general issue under Linux (Unix) which has nothing to do > neither with modems nor with your package. > Just install with prefixing with sudo . If necessary to adjust > ownership of the files in a later step, the two commands chown, chrgp > do what you need. Use man chown to learn how to change owner uid > alone or both owner uid and grp, or man chgrp to change only the group. > Example from my machine: > [phep5] /home/goldberg > ls -l > -rw-r--r-- 1 goldberg v5 999424 Aug 12 2010 200710.2.dat > goldberg is the uid (user id), v5 is the gid (group-id) > > Jacques > > On 08/28/2011 12:43 PM, Ian Smith wrote: >> Marvin, >> >> My apologies for the delay in getting back to you. >> >> When I tried to install the package, Ubuntu Software Centre >> complains, saying "wrong-file-owner-uid-or-gid" for maybe all of the >> files. How should I proceed? >> >> Kind Regards, >> >> >> Ian >> >> On 13/08/11 00:55, Marvin Stodolsky wrote: >>> Updates of the two packages to 2.6.38 level, >>> including the new Debian/Ubuntu packaging requirements >>> >>> Ian, >>> Nothing is required on your part. You can use your already >>> installed code. >>> Only the packaging is different >>> >>> MarvS >>> >>> On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 8:59 PM, Marvin Stodolsky >>> <marvin.stodolsky@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:marvin.stodolsky@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote: >>> >>> Just a minor change in the packaging procedure, because the >>> older package will not install on current Debian/Ubuntu systems. >>> Discard the old package. >>> >>> MarvS >>> >>> >
