What is the administrator password?

Asked by Leroy J Suire

How to get admistrative permission, every time I try to install a program I am asked for a password, Help!!!!!!!!!!!

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enubuntu (mr.tennents) said :
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If you want to install program by graphical way, you have to insert the password that you have chosen at the installation setup.

If you want to install a program in the terminal, and you remember your password, you just use 'sudo' (Read here more about sudo: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RootSudo). This will give you permission to do what you want on your system.
You have to put sudo just before a command in terminal and this command will be executed by the superuser.
For example, if you want to install vlc you have to use apt-get install vlc, but you need to be superuser, so the command will be:
sudo apt-get install vlc.

If you have lost your password please visit here for restore:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LostPassword

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enubuntu (mr.tennents) said :
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If you have solved this question, please mark as solved. And don't open more question. Thank you.

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Eliah Kagan (degeneracypressure) said :
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Though this is a bit late, I think it's still worth posting to clarify that eNry was saying that if you have one question open about a topic, you should not open additional questions about that same specific topic. You should certainly feel free to post other questions on Launchpad (just not more than one at a time about the exact same topic).

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