Hello everyone (Posting from italy and my english is a bit rusty lately, hope you'll forgive...)
i wanted to try linuxmint 14 and installed in my pc. It seems everything working correctly, but when i try to install new applications using software manager, i get this error message
The weird thing is that i can log in as user root with no problem for other tasks, such as mounting volumes, managing users and so on.
Is this a known problem of this distribution? does anyone have a clue about how to fix it?
I always used ubuntu in my pc and never experienced bugs and problems
thanks, Lorenzo
(SOLVED) failed to run mintinstall as user root
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(SOLVED) failed to run mintinstall as user root
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Re: failed to run mintinstall as user root
Root can not install nothing?
I thing that it is because a bad iso downloaded.
Did you checked md5sum before burn it?
I thing that it is because a bad iso downloaded.
Did you checked md5sum before burn it?
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Re: failed to run mintinstall as user root
jungle_boy wrote:Root can not install nothing?
I thing that it is because a bad iso downloaded.
Did you checked md5sum before burn it?
did not check the iso.... but sounds so weird just everything else but installing new software goes great.
doesn't mintinstall have dependencies or need other shared libraries? if so many other applications or functionalities should have problems.
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Re: failed to run mintinstall as user root
Open synaptic and reinstall mintinstall...lore68 wrote: doesn't mintinstall have dependencies or need other shared libraries? if so many other applications or functionalities should have problems.
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Re: failed to run mintinstall as user root
this is the error i got when i launched synaptic (my username is lo)jungle_boy wrote: Open synaptic and reinstall mintinstall...
i found a workout maybe here http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=187&t=97450
i believe it's all a matter of adding my username to that sudoers file. But why it have not been done by itself, i don't know.
Re: failed to run mintinstall as user root
Fixed
here's how i did it
now i am able to install new software with full root privileges.
Thanks to all of you
here's how i did it
now i am able to install new software with full root privileges.
Thanks to all of you
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Re: (SOLVED) failed to run mintinstall as user root
Ok.
When you tried to reinstall mintinstall system reported that lo user was out of sudoers group; solution? Add lo to sudoers group.
When you tried to reinstall mintinstall system reported that lo user was out of sudoers group; solution? Add lo to sudoers group.
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Re: (SOLVED) failed to run mintinstall as user root
I was seeing a similar problem. Software Manager was asking for the administration password, not the users password.
The solution I used was to run :
Changed the Authentication mode from su to sudo and the users password was accepted. (After adding them to the sudo group)
Personally, I think this should be handled by polkit as the interface is more user friendly. By allowing the user to select and admin user from the dropdown I find it cleaner.
The solution I used was to run :
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$gksu-properties
Personally, I think this should be handled by polkit as the interface is more user friendly. By allowing the user to select and admin user from the dropdown I find it cleaner.
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Re: (SOLVED) failed to run mintinstall as user root
Open a terminal and:
Try to run software manager again.
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su
adduser your_user_name sudo
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