On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 17:02, Yvette Davis <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey everyone.. I just installed Debian on my Dell laptop for the first > time. I'm having trouble getting the firmware for my wireless installed. > We're trying to use sudo apt get in the terminal, but we keep getting the > following error " is not in sudoers file" What the heck does that mean? We > tried to log in as root and do it that way, but get the following error > "authentication failure" even though we set up a root user account and the > password is correct Any suggestions other than reinstalling Debian?
it's apt-get not 'apt get'. so the proper command (using sudo) would be: sudo apt-get that being said, what SHOULD happen is: you log in as your normal user you open a terminal you run the command above + options Stuff happens. It would help if you could copy/paste everything from your terminal, including exactly what command you are typing and the full error output. also, try the following: sudo visudo and see what that file tells you (you should be able to determine which groups have sudo priveleges, which IIRC by default should be both admin and sudo groups. Then run this command: groups and see if your user is a member of any groups that have sudo permissions. Of course, if your normal user account does NOT have sudo permissions, you won't get this far, you'll fail at the visudo part :-) ------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from this list, please email [email protected] & you will be removed.Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
