Ubuntu user's report

[Matthew Carpenter]

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Hey Rick,
Glad you understand now.  That is, of course, the main point.
I believe Ubuntu also allows a non-root shell where the man pages are
also available.

Also, you probably have no reason to know this, but the following also
works (and is ever so much more elegant):

Applications -> Run Application -> man:sudo

But don't feel bad, I didn't find the package manager Synaptic because I
wasn't looking in the right menu!  I ended up using a Terminal and
calling synaptic from there (after shutting off an X-Windows security
feature).  It takes some time to get familiar with things.



Rick Bowers wrote:
| Alma,
|
| Thank you.  Your (short) reply gives me an answer I can use, and your
| <rant> </rant> explains what I was trying to say.
|
| Anyway, thank you all for helping.  I now understand how sudo works and
| humbly concede to ... well, whatever.
|
| I tried getting to a shell in Ubunto before asking my question here, but
| it kept asking me for a password (I assumed it wanted root's password)
| so I couldn't get to the shell to get to 'man'.  So, since I didn't
| understand 'sudo', I couldn't get to 'man' to see how 'sudo' works --
| your standard vicious cycle.
|
| I'm better now, thanks.
|
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