🖥️ To run as admin 💻 Admin command tool

to sudo

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To run a command with administrator rights

verb
/ˈsuːdoʊ/

Specialized

: sudo

sudo apt-get install full-gnome3-experience

Examples

I did sudo su to gain root access, used gparted to see which partition was which, and proceeded from there.

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When I want to update the system packages, I enter sudo apt-get update in the terminal.
Don't care how easy it is to sudo this or that.

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But also you could use sudo shutdown minus H now.
So we'll do a sudo reboot just so you've seen the whole process.
sudo softwareupdate -i -a

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sudo softwareupdate -l

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sudo apt-get install tor tor-geoipdb

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sudo apt-get purge flashplugin-installer nspluginwrapper

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In Linux, when I want to install Postgres on my server, it is: sudo apt-get install postgres and I'm up and running.

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Surface Forms

sudo infinitive

sudod past

sudod past participle

sudoning present participle

sudos third person singular

Etymology

Sudo comes from the words superuser and do, where superuser means 'administrator' and do means 'to perform'. So to sudo a command is to tell the computer to 'do this as the administrator', which is why it gives you higher permission.