[ale] Losing Ubuntu

[Joshua Roberts]

Well, I have installed Debian with Lxde.  I like the openbox desktop.  But
here begins the work.  I may need to reinstall to make my life easier.  I
chose to not allow root login on this machine.  It also seems that I, joshua
the user, am not allowed to access the sudo command.  I am not in the
sudoers file.  First I have seen that.  From what I have read I am going to
need to boot into a live CD and edit the file.  Or I can do a minimal boot
into /bin/sh and then mount some stuff that I need to edit the file.  Either
way it seems like it is going to be some work.

Does anyone have any tips about how to best accomplish this task of giving
myself sudo access without a huge headache.  Maybe I am just really tired
because the instructions for the sudo file look really confusing.  Even
worse than Xorg or Xranr.  Anyway, I am giong to bed.  I will fight with it
some more another day.  Until then I will have to live with what I have
since I cannot install anything else.

Yeah for me.  I managed to F up my first real linux install.  ( After this
experience I do not really count Ubuntu as a serious linux install.)

Joshua

On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 7:45 PM, Rev. Johnny Healey <rev.null at gmail.com>wrote:

> Ubuntu is debian unstable unstable.
>
> On Aug 13, 2010 10:47 AM, "jrtroberts" <jrtroberts at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I have decided to stop using ubuntu and Try Debian directly. Not sure
> > how that will affect my linux experience, but I do not see it being all
> > that bad.
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