How to install scalpel application - cannot get root privileges

Please read this:

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

I will read the RootSudo page more closely but let me give more detail. I wanted something called "Scalpel" installed to solve other problems. It was TERMINAL who said that I had to be root to install "Scalpel" and it was TERMINAL who suggested the "sudo apt-get root-system-bin" command which it then promptly denied.

Run this command instead to install scalpel:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install scalpel

Terminal: sudo: apt-get-update: command not found

Mark: I presently running 10.04. I'm going to install 10.10 and try your suggestions there. I won't be able to continue a dialogue on this until possibly May 5.

You made a typing error there. It is better to copy-paste my command into the Terminal than to manually type it in.

The correct command to copy-paste into the Terminal is:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install scalpel

So REMOVE the - (dash symbol) between apt-get and update...

I suggest reading the following guides FIRST:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AptGet/Howto

and

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

I'd always been a "terminal failure" at Cut and Paste because Control-V never worked. I tried the tool bar command and it worked! Thanks. Get back to you after I read your guides.

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> Subject: Re: [Question #154968]: How to install scalpel application - cannot get root privileges
> Date: Sun, 1 May 2011 10:38:46 +0000
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> Your question #154968 on sudo in Ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sudo/+question/154968
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> Status: Open => Answered
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> Mark Rijckenberg proposed the following answer:
> You made a typing error there. It is better to copy-paste my command
> into the Terminal than to manually type it in.
>
> The correct command to copy-paste into the Terminal is:
>
> sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install scalpel
>
> So REMOVE the - (dash symbol) between apt-get and update...
>
> I suggest reading the following guides FIRST:
>
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AptGet/Howto
>
> and
>
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RootSudo
>
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Thanks Mark Rijckenberg, that solved my question.

I've finished the suggested reading and Scalpel is installed. Now, I have questions regarding the how-to's of opening the application and beginning operations with Scalpel. Also, if I'll need additional hardware to perform Scalpel functions.

May I streamline this question, start over and get a new "Headline" since my questions now are related to performing functions with Scalpel and since I'm getting no help as things stand now?

Thanks Mark Rijckenberg, that solved my question.