I'm a sudoer on my workstation and also have the root password, but the Ubuntu Software Center doesn't let me install as it only lists a bunch of other users that are able to authenticate.
How do I grant myself the org.debian.apt.install-or-remove-packages
"Action" that the details suggest I need? Some other post pointed me to /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.debian.apt.policy
, but nothing in there is specifically referring to the four other users that the Authenticate dialog lists.
As an aside (not really the answer I'm looking for, but still of-interest), is there some way to get a package name from the Software Center that I can then install with apt-get
via the prompt?
$ groups
includessudoers
, among others, and I cansudo
. Is there some other kind of sudo?/etc/sudoers
has%sudo ALL=(ALL) ALL
,%sudoers ALL=(ALL) ALL
, and%admin ALL=(ALL) ALL
lines in it. Suspiciously,getent group admin
listed the same four people that showed up in the authentication window, adding myself to that group (which other sources seem to say is identical to sudoers) solved the problem.