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Post by alexham36 on Jul 21, 2012 21:55:47 GMT
Just installed Mint Felicia onto an old HD. I was "told" during the installation that root password was "sudo su root" and I have tried every combination of those three words without success.
How do I log on as Root?
Many thanks,
Alex
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Post by mikkh on Jul 22, 2012 0:03:56 GMT
There is no root by default in Ubuntu based distros and Mint is just Ubuntu in a pretty frock
To create a root account do the following command in a terminal
sudo passwd root
you will then be asked for your user password
now supply the root password - twice (Note - it will NOT be echoed on the screen)
sorted
In Ubuntu and derivatives the format sudo (command) is used all the time for doing administrative tasks
Once you have created the root password you use su to become root and can forget the sudo bit altogether
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Post by alexham36 on Jul 22, 2012 12:47:09 GMT
Thank you Mikkh. I also have Ubuntu V.10 on another HD and typing "sudo passwd root" worked. It did not in Mint. The command in Mint is "sudo su root", but i misunderstood the instruction and tried to type a different password. It wanted my logon password.
That is now sorted, but I still have problems with printing. Mint does not recognize my printer at all - WiFi connection. Ubuntu recognized the printer but will print only in B/W. The word processor (OpenOffice) has only one other colour -Brown - but if that is used the printer prints in "RGB" - i.e. Cyan, Magenta and Yellow separately, so it cannot be used.
Thanks again,
Alex
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Post by elvisuk on Jul 22, 2012 17:50:47 GMT
H! alexham36,
I had problems with my Printer in Linux Mint i have an Epson D6000 mint did recognize, it but would not print anything.
So i used a different printer drive and the one i am now using is the D7000
I do not now if it will work for you but it is worth a try.
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Post by alexham36 on Jul 22, 2012 18:24:08 GMT
Thanks, Elvis, but for that to work the O/S must recognize a printer. I cannot chose another printer, or any printer, because Mint shows no printer at all.
Alex
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Post by mikkh on Jul 22, 2012 18:36:24 GMT
Didn't realise how old 'felicia' was till I just checked - obsolete since 2010 it says on the wiki Felicia was version 6, we're now on 13 !
And Ubuntu is on version 14
Linux is not like Windows, older versions are dropped quite quickly and because the drivers are part of the kernel, support for wifi printers probably didn't exist back then
You can't keep using an old version of Linux unless it's in a static server (probably no GUI) type system where nothing changes much. A home desktop system needs new Firefox etc etc to stay up to date and remain secure
You have to update to a much newer version to have any chance of getting your printer to work basically.
If it's an old machine that might struggle with a newer version, use a different desktop environment other than the top two popular but quite heavy on resources ones - namely KDE and Gnome. XFCE is the next most popular one but much kinder to older machines and LXDE is the lightest but most fully featured of the others
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