[Gllug] Advice needed on Ubuntu

[john levin]

Richard Kirkham wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm a long time user of KDE in SuSE 8.2.
> 
> The enthusiasm of GLLUG members about Ubuntu, combined with my wish to
> get a bit more up-to-date, lead me to install Ubuntu v5.04

You know the latest version is 5.10? If you need a cd, I can pop one in 
the post.

> and I'm very
> glad I did. I now agree it's the best thing since sliced bread. I'm very
> happy with the usability of Gnome.
> 
> However, I'd like to get user access to my "local" partition but can't
> because root owns it and won't allow me.
> 

Use sudo. By default, Ubuntu doesn't have a root account - similar to OS 
X in that respect.

> I tried following the method used in KUbuntu - trying to log in as root
> and applying my user password - but it doesn't work.
> 
> Anyhow I'm not sure how to become root in the GUI - I've been spoilt by
> YAST, I suppose. How's it done in Gnome?
> 
> What I want to achieve in the end is:
> - to be able to change the password for root to something I choose and
> - to access my 'local' partition and finally
> - to get it to rip to mp3

For copyright reasons, Ubuntu doesn't ship with mp3 codecs, and various 
others. See:
http://ubuntuguide.org/
for installing them (and a load of other useful info relating to root).

HTH

John
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