I installed linuxlite on a Gateway Core 2 1.6Ghz machine this afteroon. During installation, I accepted the default user name "linuxlite" and noticed a message that the install was as "superuser." The install went smoothly and I am able to login as user linuxlite with the password I supplied. However, any attempt to install software (e.g., Chromium) asks for a password and the password that I used for install is not accepted. Any attempt to invoke sudo in a terminal window also fails to accept the password.
One possibly related note: The first thing I tried after install was to type a note in text editor. The keyboard translation was all screwed up (e.g., 'p' produced '*'). I Googled and found the Shift+fn+Scroll numlock solution which includes going to Control Panel / Keyboard and unchecking the "Restore numlock state on start up" box. Thinking that this might possibly have something to do with the sudo password problem, I tried sudo with a normal keyboard password and sudo with the numlock password and neither works. Yet, I can still reboot the machine and sign in successfully as user linuxlite and the same password I supplied during installation.
I would hate to have to do the install all over again but won't be able to use LinuxLite without being able to install needed software and being able to use sudo in a terminal.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you!
Kapdani
One possibly related note: The first thing I tried after install was to type a note in text editor. The keyboard translation was all screwed up (e.g., 'p' produced '*'). I Googled and found the Shift+fn+Scroll numlock solution which includes going to Control Panel / Keyboard and unchecking the "Restore numlock state on start up" box. Thinking that this might possibly have something to do with the sudo password problem, I tried sudo with a normal keyboard password and sudo with the numlock password and neither works. Yet, I can still reboot the machine and sign in successfully as user linuxlite and the same password I supplied during installation.
I would hate to have to do the install all over again but won't be able to use LinuxLite without being able to install needed software and being able to use sudo in a terminal.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you!
Kapdani