Hey feels like that's more i have been using debian that's more problem I have confronted computer problems sow I need again help white a few things.

1. I have tried search from google a good instruction manual of how to use the command promote in debian, and only found bad ones, the reason why I am trying to find one is that I notice myself using the command promote all the time to install or doing anything.

2.how important is the command sudo in debian? Read instruction from here
3.[url] http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=5127 [url] sow do I need to install sudo to use it? Got weird error when I am trying to execute commands to install t.ex [code]sudo apt-get install java[code] in return I get [code] administrator is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported.[code]
And when I am trying to install without the sudo command I get
E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (13 Permission denied)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), are you root?
I have tried to change permissions white chmod but it will return every time with permission denied

4.Then my last question is that when I wrote in terminal yes the command promote while spam white y why is it doing that?

Regards Skullsoldier

Hi

Regarding point 3 - you are getting that error because you are not logged in as root and you're trying to execute a superuser command.

In order for sudo to work the user you're logged in as (I think administrator ) is not in your sudoers file (not too sure where that is configured on Debian but in Fedora/RHEL its in /etc/sudoers).

I am able to get in to the /etc/sudoers file but when i am trying add after line

[code]root ALL=(ALL) ALL [code] add this line
[code]administrator ALL=(ALL) ALL [code]
when i write it out it just return: ERROR WRITING /etc/sudoers: Permission denied

i have also tried to log in as root but it's now allowing

just tried to make a new user and give it root acess from

SYSTEM->Administration->Users and Groups

and still i get the same error as before: ERROR WRITING /etc/sudoers: Permission Denied

For adding a user to sudoer's list do this:

give root password

you will get prompt like:#

do

now if you want to add john to sudoer's list do this

save the file using wq

Note:donot edit /etc/sudoers but do visudo

Thank you problem solved

still qurios that in terminal that when you write yes it spams y

It spams means what?
Post that output here and don't use short cuts instead of y write why

here is the picture after i write it in the command line. if i scroll up it shows just blank white.

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