I finally got around to installing debian 10 on my 64bit system(thus removing the i386version I had originally instaled). The install went well and I asked for a seperate Home particion. When I booted the system and try to do "apt-get update and apt-get upgrade" using "sudo" it would not let me do that. Said I was not a sudo user. I then tried "su root" which failed as well as it said I was not a sudo user. I went to the sudouse file and changed it to make me a user. Sudo as myself worked fine but su root still did not work.
After seeing the email concering problems with sudo and su root I decided to reload. I did but did a use whole disk (no home part). After booting I did have to go to the sudouser file an change it again but the su root worked with out a problem. Only saying all of this because of the email chatter on sudo and su root. Thanks for the attention a great info. Jerry