Re: [orca-list] sysadmin help

[Hermann <meinelisten onlinehome de>]

On 31.07.2008 at 14:17:09 "Milton" <milton tomaatnet nl> wrote:

> Hello Jim,
>
> The result of the sudo command is:
>  sudo -h | -K | -k | -L | -l | -V | -v
> usage: sudo [-bEHPS] [-p prompt] [-u username|#uid] [VAR=value]
>             {-i | -s | <command>}
> usage: sudo -e [-S] [-p prompt] [-u username|#uid] file ...
>
> After the command "% sudo synaptic" the result is "cannot find command" . I 
> tried to translate from Dutch.

Try simply:
sudo synaptic
That % seems to me a missunderstanding: Some shells indicate by showing
that "%" that one is logged in as user; the prompt looks like this:
user host:~%
When logged in as root you see:
root host:~#
Some shells replace the "%" by "$" when logged in as user.
I hope this clarifies the matter.
Hermann