root password...[ubuntu 5.10 installation issues]

[Joe(theWordy)Philbrook]

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It would appear that on Dec 12, (?????) Revant Nandgaonkar did say:

> 
> If you are installing ubuntu first time, follow the starter guide. It's best
> source of information for beginning your ubuntu journey.
> read the starter guide here >
> http://help.ubuntu.com/starterguide/C/faqguide-all.html
> 
> revant
> 

Thanks for the link Revant, But I went there and quickly found that I'd
have to wade through so many things I'm not looking for to find the ones
I need to know that by the time I find them I wouldn't recognize them...
If it was a printed book without all those dang html links that change
where in the book you are, I might try to read it...

But for example, when I see a link under section 2.7 that's titled:

=> "How to manually update Ubuntu using Apt-get?" 
=> ________^^^^^^^^_____________________^^^^^^^
=> 	
=> 
=>    1.  Read How do I add Universe and Multiverse?
=> . . . . . . ____________________________________
=> 
=>    2.  sudo apt-get update
=>        sudo apt-get upgrade

I find it very confusing to wind up reading how to use the freaking gui
synaptic tool to add Universe and Multiverse instead of telling me how
to edit the apt-get sources file to include them. I mean if I found the gui
tool easier than the command line version I wouldn't want to know how to
do it with apt-get...

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