Problems opening Adept

[eccles]

Ok, ultra newbie question here...

When I try to open up adept it asks for the root password which I dont have (cant remember it asking to set one during installation).  Now when I put in my normal user password it tells me its opening up in read only mode and I wont be able to install any packages.

I seem to be able to open it from a command prompt using sudo and my regular password fine and it doesnt open in read only mode, but obviously I would prefer not have to do that every time I want to install / update packages.

Anyone have any ideas?  I know theres a way to mod the root password if anyone is able to give me instructions on that?

Cheers

[analyticalman]

Re: Problems opening Adept

No - its not an ultra newbie question - its a bit odd but I've had that error message myself. It happened when, for some reason, adept didn't exit properly and was still running as a process. It then would only open as a read only process as a second instance. To check if this has happened to you go to the system menu and launch ksysguard (without adept running) if you see adept running in the process table tab then you will need to kill it. to do this, make a note of the PID number (call it 10428 as an example) then open up a terminal and type "sudo kill -15 10428" type your password and adept will be nuked (check in the process table)

By the way - using the terminal and using sudo apt-get install or apt-get update is a perfectly good way (some would say preferable) alternative to using adept or adept-updater