<font face="arial" size="2"><p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; word-wrap: break-word;">Hi Jackie,</p>
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<p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; word-wrap: break-word;">When you first installed the PC, it should have asked you to choose a username and password (along with a name for the PC itself, and a few other questions). It is that password which you need to enter.</p>
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<p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; word-wrap: break-word;">If you are not sure of the password, you reset it quite easily:</p>
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<p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; word-wrap: break-word;">1) open a terminal (just type "Terminal" in the dash bar).</p>
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<p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; word-wrap: break-word;">2) Then run this command in the terminal window, followed by pressing the RETURN key:<br /> sudo passwd $USER</p>
<p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; word-wrap: break-word;">You should be prompted to enter a new password for your user. You can choose a new password, and this will now be the password to use for the system updates, too.</p>
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<p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; word-wrap: break-word;">Steve</p>
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<p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; word-wrap: break-word;">-----Original Message-----<br />From: "jackie menon" <jacqueline.menon@gmail.com><br />Sent: Monday, April 25, 2016 2:32pm<br />To: "GLLUG@mailman.lug.org.uk" <GLLUG@mailman.lug.org.uk><br />Subject: [GLLUG] Question about software updater problem<br /><br /></p>
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<p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; word-wrap: break-word;">Hi there</p>
<div>I am still a novice with regards to Ubuntu. </div>
<div>I am trying to do my software update. I get the message that software is available to update and am asked if I want to install it. I click install now and get a box which says "to install or remove software, you need to authenticate" and asks for a password.</div>
I am not sure which password is required. I have also read on some forum pages that this is a bug and I should just press the escape key. This does not work.
<div>I would welcome any suggestions of how to proceed.</div>
<div>Regards</div>
<div>Jackie</div>
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