Bad at researching/searching need sudo help

Greetings,

I generally have a terrible time of researching info in forums. With that I have 2 questions I'm hoping to get answered here.

1. Tips and tricks of using forums to find what you need. (I wish only to create new threads if I have to, not duplicate someone elses threads.)

1. I just installed Ubuntu-9.04-server-powerpc on a Mac Mini. Server packages installed: Print and file server packages.

Install went just fine. I reboot and log in no problems to the command line environment. (as much as I would like to learn more about command line, I need to work on a desktop environment for help).

so I typed:

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop

[sudo] password for (user):

Now I type in my pwd for (user) and get the following error:

(user) is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported.

Well I've only made 1 user and that was in the install. What do I do now? What file do I need to edit, should I re-install?

Thank you all for any assisntace.

-Impatient n00b

heres one idea

http://crunchbang.org/ubuntu-search-engine/

Interesting, thank you.

In Ubuntu desktop, the first User is added to the Admin group by default and so can use Sudo. I am not familiar with Ubuntu server, so perhaps it is a little different.

Were you prompted to set a password for root/administrator when you installed?

If not, reboot the server and select "recovery mode" from the grub menu. This lets you have root access without authentication

Then when you have a shell prompt, take a look at the sudoers file with "visudo"

For your reference, heres an example from a desktop version of ubuntu - note the last line - members of the Admin group can sudo:

# /etc/sudoers #

This file MUST be edited with the 'visudo' command as root.

#

See the man page for details on how to write a sudoers file.

#

Defaults env_reset

Host alias specification

User alias specification

Cmnd alias specification

User privilege specification

root ALL=(ALL) ALL

Uncomment to allow members of group sudo to not need a password

(Note that later entries override this, so you might need to move

it further down)

%sudo ALL=NOPASSWD: ALL

Members of the admin group may gain root privileges

%admin ALL=(ALL) ALL