Help can not logging in as root

Mon Sep 12 12:19:14 UTC 2005

man, 12,.09.2005 kl. 14.00 +0200, skrev David:
>             How do I long in as the root user because I wish to
> install some software

Install software as superuser. "sudo" user = root user.
Ubuntu does not like to use the root account!

Per Arne
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