Thank you for all your ideas. I have now tried all the suggestions for sudo.
Result is "permission denied"
Tried visudo. It said something about "You have probably been given the usual
lecture about ..." Then it let me give myself a password. I thought this would
be a root password, so I
weasel. I tried to download Firefox, but
could not install it. It kept asking for the root.
From: Hannu Virtanen
To: tina braxton ; Scott Ferguson
; "debian-laptop@lists.debian.org"
Sent: Sunday, March 25, 2012 12:24 PM
Subject: Re: can't get Icewe
From: Scott Ferguson
To: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org
Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2012 11:08 PM
Subject: Re: can't get Iceweasel to work on my laptop
On 22/03/12 08:40, tina braxton wrote:
> I received a donated laptop about two years ago. It is
Dear New Friends,
Thank you for all these ideas. It's great to have so much support.
Actually, I have tried two of the ideas suggested.
I have been unable to locate the person who put on the software. The former
owner cannot find him, either.
I have tried to install Ubuntu, but it won't
I received a donated laptop about two years ago. It is an older model--an Acer
Travel Mate 2480-2779. It has Debian software, including Iceweasel browser
3.5.9.
Build identifier, in case you need it, is Mozilla /5.0 (XII; U; Linux i686;
en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko /20100501 Iceweasel/ 3.5.9 (li
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