o run a command as administrator (user "root"), use "sudo <command>". See "man sudo_root" for details.

aizen05@aizen05-Aspire-M1800:~$ ls Desktop Downloads Music Public Templates Documents examples.desktop Pictures repo manual Videos aizen05@aizen05-Aspire-M1800:~$ cd repo\ manual/ aizen05@aizen05-Aspire-M1800:~/repo manual$ ls apache2 dhcp filezilla ftp samba aizen05@aizen05-Aspire-M1800:~/repo manual$ cd ftp/ aizen05@aizen05-Aspire-M1800:~/repo manual/ftp$ ls vsftpd_2.3.2-3ubuntu4_i386.deb aizen05@aizen05-Aspire-M1800:~/repo manual/ftp$ sudo dpkg -i *.deb [sudo] password for aizen05: Selecting previously deselected package vsftpd. (Reading database ... 129488 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking vsftpd (from vsftpd_2.3.2-3ubuntu4_i386.deb) ... 1Setting up vsftpd (2.3.2-3ubuntu4) ... Adding user ftp to group ftp vsftpd start/running, process 2023 Processing triggers for man-db ... Processing triggers for ureadahead ... sudo