On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 11:36 AM, Clayton Stapleton<[email protected]> wrote:
> So I went to a terminal screen and entered
> c...@eagle:~$ root
> The program 'root' is currently not installed.  To run 'root' please ask your 
> administrator to install the package 'root-system-bin'
> bash: root: command not found
> And so there is no root program installed! What happened to the one under 
> 8.10???
>
> Went back to “recovery mode” which thankfully still remembers my password.
>
> In “recovery mode” choose “root shell” and then entered my root password, it 
> was accepted! Then entered “apt-get install root-system-bin” . It tried to 
> access the internet and nothing happened. Then it asked for the Ubuntu 9.04 
> disk so I put in th x86 desktop disk and it did not find any root packages. 
> Then it said to try update or fix which neither one would work because of no 
> internet.
>
> Is there a way to get the “root program” installed on this OS??
>
> Thank you
> Clayton Stapleton
>
> The above was sent to Ubuntu forum questions and CheapBytes where the disk 
> came from over a week ago with no answer as yet!!
>
> Went back to the “recovery mode” and found “root shell with networking” and 
> tried apt-get install root-system-bin and away to the internet it went and 
> downloaded an number of files. Then it asked for the Ubuntu 9.04 disk and 
> copied a number of riles from it. I then went back to the Ubuntu 9.04 OS and 
> tried to enter the “synaptic package manager” and was asked for my root 
> password. It did not accept my root password that works in “recovery mode” I 
> then went to a terminal window and on the CLI entered “root” and yes the root 
> program version 5 is installed.  So how is it possible to enter the root 
> password into this OS???
[snip]
idk why googlemail dropped the indent, sorry.

I'm never heard of a command called Root. Are you thinking su?

Ubuntu uses sudo by default.

$sudo bash
enter your USER password, and you are dropped into a root shell

-- 
Thanks and best regards,
Ryan Rix
OnBoard-NG
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