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how to login in ubuntu as administrator or in root account???

Asked by shivam

When i start the update manager, i'm asked to start it manually, by typing the following command:

dpkg --configure -a

then i tried it in terminal with someone's help and some more commands.

but it asked for administrative priviledge.

What should i do??????????????
please help.......

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Tom Haddon (mthaddon) said : 		#1

This might be useful as an explanation of root/sudo in Ubuntu:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RootSudo

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Bruce Cowan (bruce89-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#2

sudo dpkg --configure -a is what your after here.

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mobiusNZ (mobiusnz) said : 		#3

Also, if you have a lot of commands you need to run and you're too lazy to type sudo before each command (like me), try "sudo -s". This will give you a root terminal.

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