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Daedulus
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13 Feb 2009, 3:37 am

I have a bunch of aliases in my dotfiles for this sort of thing

and a script that will auto add it if I forgot it for certain commands

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13 Feb 2009, 11:51 am

yesplease wrote:

sudo su/sudo -i ftw! Having to type sudo every couple seconds is annoying for post-install stuff.

I just type

Code:

sudo bash

- once.

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13 Feb 2009, 3:08 pm

yesplease wrote:

sudo su/sudo -i ftw! Having to type sudo every couple seconds is annoying for post-install stuff.

I personally like the ability to run a command with or without superuser privileges as needed, using only as powerful of privileges as I need rather than logging in as root and then exiting later when I want to execute a command but not be root anymore. Of course, if I need to be root for a prolonged period of time, sudo su is always there.

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13 Feb 2009, 3:13 pm

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You need to put a # in front of the deb cdrom part like below

I put the # but I don't know how to actually initiate that change. Nothing changed when I merely did that then quit. I'm an Ubuntu n00b, so I don't know how to use terminal.

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13 Feb 2009, 4:19 pm

you have to save it

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13 Feb 2009, 4:56 pm

and restart whatever package management tool your are using and/or tell it to refresh the repository data and have a wired Ethernet connection (as the whole point of this is that you haven't got to WiFi working yet).

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13 Feb 2009, 5:03 pm

Dokken wrote:

yesplease wrote:

sudo su/sudo -i ftw! Having to type sudo every couple seconds is annoying for post-install stuff.

I imagine it would, but you don't have to type sudo every couple of seconds

Post install I do, er, did. Too much stuff to do to bother with sudo fdhrfjkdshfsdkj for every command.

lau wrote:

yesplease wrote:

sudo su/sudo -i ftw! Having to type sudo every couple seconds is annoying for post-install stuff.

I just type

Code:

sudo bash

- once.

Too many characters.

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yesplease wrote:

sudo su/sudo -i ftw! Having to type sudo every couple seconds is annoying for post-install stuff.

I end to open up a few terminal emulators w/ root/whatever user if I need to do anything beyond a few lines.

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13 Feb 2009, 5:26 pm

yesplease wrote:

Post install I do, er, did. Too much stuff to do to bother with sudo fdhrfjkdshfsdkj for every command.

Sounds like a personal problem :wink:

I don't have to type sudo hngkjgkjhgk for every command. I must be special

yesplease wrote:

I end to open up a few terminal emulators w/ root/whatever user if I need to do anything beyond a few lines.

You should award yourself a cookie :wink:

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13 Feb 2009, 6:17 pm

In reality, I usually do Ctrl/Alt/F1 and login as root.

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14 Feb 2009, 12:37 am

Dokken wrote:

yesplease wrote:

Post install I do, er, did. Too much stuff to do to bother with sudo fdhrfjkdshfsdkj for every command.

Sounds like a personal problem :wink:

I don't have to type sudo hngkjgkjhgk for every command. I must be special

Yes, "special". :lol:

Dokken wrote:

yesplease wrote:

I end to open up a few terminal emulators w/ root/whatever user if I need to do anything beyond a few lines.

You should award yourself a cookie :wink:

As a "special" person, you can have it, honest.

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14 Feb 2009, 9:28 pm

Okay, once I saved the newly-commented script the terminal showed up blank and the software manager could no loner even upload the upgrades from the folders.

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15 Feb 2009, 12:58 am

Rafter613 wrote:

Okay, once I saved the newly-commented script the terminal showed up blank and the software manager could no loner even upload the upgrades from the folders.

what do you mean it showed up blank? You weren't supposed to erase anything.

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15 Feb 2009, 10:53 am

I didn't. When I next opened up terminal, there was an error message and the terminal opened up blank.

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15 Feb 2009, 11:34 am

what did the error say?

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15 Feb 2009, 1:50 pm

If you gave us some details like the output of lspci and the model of your netbook we could give more useful advice.

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