# Running roon on Linux Ubuntu 18.04 as a user (not as root)

**URL:** <https://community.roonlabs.com/t/running-roon-on-linux-ubuntu-18-04-as-a-user-not-as-root/51256>\
**Category:** Linux\
**Created:** [October 15, 2018, 4:44pm UTC](https://community.roonlabs.com/t/running-roon-on-linux-ubuntu-18-04-as-a-user-not-as-root/51256 "2018-10-15T16:44:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![ravyn](https://community.roonlabs.com/user_avatar/community.roonlabs.com/ravyn/32/67116_2.png) [@ravyn](https://community.roonlabs.com/u/ravyn)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2019, 4:20am UTC](https://community.roonlabs.com/t/running-roon-on-linux-ubuntu-18-04-as-a-user-not-as-root/51256/7 "2019-10-21T04:20:30Z")

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That worked, somehow – the script no returns [OK].

Thanks for your help, much appreciated. I’ll finish the install this week.

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