Can't sudo

[Ben Coppin]

Hi,

I've just installed Ubuntu for the first time, and I'm having some problems.

First of all, I seem to have ended up with some kind of minimum install -
ruby is not installed, for example, and neither is any kind of graphical
user interface (as far as I can tell). More importantly, though, I can't
sudo. As far as I know, I only created one user when I installed - the user
is called ben. When I'm logged in as ben, if I try to sudo I get this:

ben is not in the sudoers file.  This incident will be reported.

As a result, I can't do anything at all on the machine. I'm guessing I must
have done something dumb when installing, but I don't know what it was! Can
anyone help?

Thanks,

Ben
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