On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 17:02, Yvette Davis
<atlanteanproductions@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey everyone.. I just installed Debian on my Dell laptop for the first
> time. I'm having trouble getting the firmware for my wireless installed.
> We're trying to use sudo apt get in the terminal, but we keep getting the
> following error " is not in sudoers file" What the heck does that mean? We
> tried to log in as root and do it that way, but get the following error
> "authentication failure" even though we set up a root user account and the
> password is correct Any suggestions other than reinstalling Debian?
it's apt-get not 'apt get'.
so the proper command (using sudo) would be:
sudo apt-get
that being said, what SHOULD happen is:
you log in as your normal user
you open a terminal
you run the command above + options
Stuff happens.
It would help if you could copy/paste everything from your terminal,
including exactly what command you are typing and the full error
output.
also, try the following:
sudo visudo
and see what that file tells you (you should be able to determine
which groups have sudo priveleges, which IIRC by default should be
both admin and sudo groups.
Then run this command:
groups
and see if your user is a member of any groups that have sudo
permissions. Of course, if your normal user account does NOT have
sudo permissions, you won't get this far, you'll fail at the visudo
part :-)
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