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Steven Coté writes: >> THanks. I have tried using Adept in GUI form with little sucess. I am told switch >> to superuser, root but at the moment I am unable to log in as root. I think I'm >> going to do a reinstall. > > Yeah, I've never been able to make heads or tails out of Adept either.<snip> > Which ever one you use, you will need superuser privileges to install > packages though. Which distribution are you using? ....ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibon) > If you're having trouble elevating your access, it'll probably be easier to fix > the problem than it is to reinstall the whole OS (well, really it'd be equally > easy since either is usually quite simple, but fixing your access > would probably be a lot quicker). How come you can't su to root? I really don't know. I have actually just done a reinstall anyway and during the process I wasn't prompted for a root password or superuser name. When I was asked for a password for root I supplied the normal user password and this worked, I've now got a system with the same username for both root and ordinary use and trhe same password....strange. Cheers, Jon. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html