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Re: [Question #77772]: While logged in as a user, I cannot install updates. Even though I know the root password and enter it when prompted the updater says it is incorrect. Ran into the same issue installing the flash player. I am an experience unix sys admin, and have run Fedora for some years. What's wrong here?

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From: Alexander Atanasov <question77772@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 15:40:18 -0000
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Question #77772 on Ubuntu changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/77772

    Status: Open => Answered

Alexander Atanasov proposed the following answer:
you should enter your own password, not root's. updater uses sudo.
It took a while to get used to it, coming from slackware.

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