No root password in Ubuntu 9.04 after updating

[Ryan Rix]

On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 11:36 AM, Clayton Stapleton<clay4291 at inbox.com> wrote:
> So I went to a terminal screen and entered
> clay at eagle:~$ root
> The program 'root' is currently not installed.  To run 'root' please ask your administrator to install the package 'root-system-bin'
> bash: root: command not found
> And so there is no root program installed! What happened to the one under 8.10???
>
> Went back to “recovery mode” which thankfully still remembers my password.
>
> In “recovery mode” choose “root shell” and then entered my root password, it was accepted! Then entered “apt-get install root-system-bin” . It tried to access the internet and nothing happened. Then it asked for the Ubuntu 9.04 disk so I put in th x86 desktop disk and it did not find any root packages. Then it said to try update or fix which neither one would work because of no internet.
>
> Is there a way to get the “root program” installed on this OS??
>
> Thank you
> Clayton Stapleton
>
> The above was sent to Ubuntu forum questions and CheapBytes where the disk came from over a week ago with no answer as yet!!
>
> Went back to the “recovery mode” and found “root shell with networking” and tried apt-get install root-system-bin and away to the internet it went and downloaded an number of files. Then it asked for the Ubuntu 9.04 disk and copied a number of riles from it. I then went back to the Ubuntu 9.04 OS and tried to enter the “synaptic package manager” and was asked for my root password. It did not accept my root password that works in “recovery mode” I then went to a terminal window and on the CLI entered “root” and yes the root program version 5 is installed.  So how is it possible to enter the root password into this OS???
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idk why googlemail dropped the indent, sorry.

I'm never heard of a command called Root. Are you thinking su?

Ubuntu uses sudo by default.

$sudo bash
enter your USER password, and you are dropped into a root shell

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Thanks and best regards,
Ryan Rix
OnBoard-NG