root password...[ubuntu 5.10 installation issues]

[(रेवंत) Revant Nandgaonkar]

On 12/12/05, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook <jtwdyp at ttlc.net> wrote:
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> It would appear that on Dec 12, (?????) Revant Nandgaonkar did say:
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> >
> > 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
> >
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> 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:
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> => "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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the guide can also be found in System > Help > Ubuntu 5.10 Starter Guide

and it is divided into readable sections there.

Revant
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