Looking for WGET on Ubuntu 8.1

The following should work just fine…

sudo apt-get install wget

If you get an error about permissions then login as a super user and run the following command:

apt-get install wget

At this point you should be up and running…

Thanks,

Smark

I've been logging in as "root" and I assumed that was a super user - obviously not…. :P

That's great - thanks

Did you create a user call root, or did you su to root?

I'm cringing as I type this…. but, I've got no idea….

thanks to smark I'm in webmin and the user list has the first entry as;

Username User ID Group Real name Home directory Shell

root 0 root root /root /bin/bash

I would've assumed this first guy would have su powers - but I think I read earlier today something about Ubuntu not making the first user one with complete su powers (?) - which might explain why using using "sudo" worked in this instance

root = user id 0 = superuser.

first user you create in Ubuntu = user id 1000 = not superuser.

root doesn't need to sudo anything. Other users need to use sudo in order to do what only root can do.

Thanks for clearing that up - cheers