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

[agg]

Hi,

I am attempting to install the game 'Runescape' and have copied the below text into terminal, but I am getting the response 'agg is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported.' I dont know what this means and dont understand most of the terminology related to the searches that I have made.

I assume it is something relatively simple as I have successfully installed the game on other operating systems with not much trouble.

Any help would be appreciated

Graham

agg@agg:~$ sudo -s -- << EOF
wget -O - https://content.runescape.com/downloads ... pe.gpg.key | apt-key add -
mkdir -p /etc/apt/sources.list.d
echo "deb https://content.runescape.com/downloads/ubuntu trusty non-free" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/runescape.list
apt-get update
apt-get install -y runescape-launcher
EOF
[sudo] password for agg:
agg is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported.

[arochester]

By default Debian does not use sudo. It uses su to become Root.

You can add sudo.

Become Root:

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su

then

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apt install sudo
usermod -a -G sudo <username>

Replace <username> with your username to which you want to grant sudo access.

Now logout & login to get sudo access to those users.

[stevepusser]

Yes, I have received the report, and the Debian Men in Black are on their way to your location. Please remain calm and do not resist.

Anyway, your mistake is to try and follow directions for Ubuntu when you are running Debian. They are related, but not the same, especially when it comes to PPAs and whether sudo will always be installed--you must not have chosen it when installing Debian.

Newbies should read and take this to heart: https://wiki.debian.org/DontBreakDebian

You can try at your own risk to use the PPA--sometimes they work, sometimes they don't.

[agg]

Excellent! thanks guys, seems to have worked a treat and loaded fine.

Had a read of 'Dont break Debian' << I like the title Sounds like it was made for me. I've broken a few.

All's good, but just need one more piece of help if you don't mind

I have a Nvidia graphics card and usually grab the driver from 'additional drivers' or ' software sources' or some such folder. digging into the murky mists of my memory I recall finding it in synaptic in the past, but cant find it now.

[stevepusser]

Debian doesn't enable the non-free part of the repo by default. The Debian wiki is your friend:

https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers

[agg]

ok. many many thanks