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Installing the Lexmark printer driver in Ubuntu 10.4

Asked by Fred Hopper

I am Trying to install the lexmark supplied printer driver from here:-
http://support.lexmark.com/index?page=answers&startover=y&locale=en&userlocale=EN_US+&productCode=&segment=DOWNLOAD&question=UBuntu#1
and when doing so I am asked to supply Authentication in a window which says:-
"This operation require root (Administrative) privileges. Please enter the Administrative password below."
I enter the Administrative password (which I used to install Ubuntu - The same one that I use when running the Ubuntu Update manager) it is not recognised.
What am I doing wrong?

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

run the command with gksudo in a terminal.

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Fred Hopper (fred-w-m-hopper) said : 		#2

Many thanks this pointed me in the correct direction, I actually got it to work using 'sudo' rather than 'gksudo' and Lexmark also put up a new driver on the 20/9/2010
http://support.lexmark.com/index?page=content&productCode=LEXMARK_X4690&actp=RECOMMEND&id=DR20523&segment=DOWNLOAD&userlocale=EN_US&oslocale=en_US&locale=en
Thank you for your help

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Fred Hopper (fred-w-m-hopper) said : 		#3

ok