Admin Assistance

To test your admin password and to update/upgrade all your system using terminal please try:

Open a Terminal from the menu Applications->Accessories->Terminal

Tip: right click with mouse on the terminal title caption and select the item "Always on Top" doing this you will force the terminal window to stay on top of the other windows and you will find very easy to copy single row from this web page into the terminal...
Something more about using the terminal https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UsingTheTerminal

Then type or better copy and paste a row a time then press enter:
(Tip: select the single row to copy then right click into the terminal and to quick paste click with middle button of mouse )

sudo dpkg --configure -a
sudo apt-get -f install
sudo apt-get --fix-missing install
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get autoremove
sudo apt-get update

give your user password when requested, you don't see nothing when you type it, then press enter.

Hope this helps

I did all you said to do and it all went very smoothly, password was
never asked for.... when I went to try again to add the dictionary files
to the root folders where I need then it still will not allow me to add
(copy / paste the files in there). This is VERY frustrating for me.
Sorry to keep bugging you, I am grateful for your assistance... I am
going to reboot systen now and hope something changes, otherwise it is
not fixed.... Seems to be needing the one and only user account I have
on here, namely me to be restored as the Admin user....

On Fri, 2010-07-16 at 19:13 +0000, marcobra (Marco Braida) wrote:

> Your question #117984 on Ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/117984
>
> Status: Open => Answered
>
> marcobra (Marco Braida) proposed the following answer:
> To test your admin password and to update/upgrade all your system using
> terminal please try:
>
> Open a Terminal from the menu Applications->Accessories->Terminal
>
> Tip: right click with mouse on the terminal title caption and select the item "Always on Top" doing this you will force the terminal window to stay on top of the other windows and you will find very easy to copy single row from this web page into the terminal...
> Something more about using the terminal https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UsingTheTerminal
>
> Then type or better copy and paste a row a time then press enter:
> (Tip: select the single row to copy then right click into the terminal and to quick paste click with middle button of mouse )
>
> sudo dpkg --configure -a
> sudo apt-get -f install
> sudo apt-get --fix-missing install
> sudo apt-get update
> sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
> sudo apt-get clean
> sudo apt-get autoremove
> sudo apt-get update
>
> give your user password when requested, you don't see nothing when you
> type it, then press enter.
>
> Hope this helps
>

ok so your user is perfect i suggest you to read some about file system permissions and sudo command:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RootSudo
http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/permissions#targetaudience

In short you must use "sudo" or "gksudo" to put file into system / root dir

For example to have write permission on all disk press alt+F2 on empty desktop and type:

gksudo nautilus

Hth

Sorry, I am a little new at using Ubuntu / Linux. But the last
suggestion you gave worked and I was able to copy / paste my files into
the folders that I wanted! AWESOME!!! Thanks so much for your help!!!
Kye.

On Fri, 2010-07-16 at 20:05 +0000, marcobra (Marco Braida) wrote:

> Your question #117984 on Ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/117984
>
> Status: Open => Answered
>
> marcobra (Marco Braida) proposed the following answer:
> ok so your user is perfect i suggest you to read some about file system
> permissions and sudo command:
>
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RootSudo
> http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/permissions#targetaudience
>
> In short you must use "sudo" or "gksudo" to put file into system / root
> dir
>
> For example to have write permission on all disk press alt+F2 on empty
> desktop and type:
>
> gksudo nautilus
>
> Hth
>

So please close this question marking as solved by visit the question web link:

https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sudo/+question/117984

Thank you

Ok, Again, I thank you for your time...........