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Just trying to install VS studio. I'm following the project odin tutorial, have downloaded the file, but when I run the next line:

sudo apt install ./code-latest.deb

I get the error: .

USER is not in the sudoers file

I've tried

sudo adduser USER sudo

and

sudo usermod -a -G sudo USER

I'm running this on a freshly installed Ubuntu 22.04, in VirtualBox.

I don't understand what I'm doing, or why it's not working in the first place. I'm just starting to learn to code, please help.

rubo77
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Mike Landress
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  • You mention doing it on Ubuntu 22 OS; but the 22 Ubuntu product doesn't use the apt command as it's a snap only system, are you sure you're using 22 & not 22.04 or 22.10 (the year [eg. 22] products differ to the more widely used year.month [eg. 22.04 or 22.10] format products) – guiverc Feb 04 '23 at 00:41
  • FYI: Ubuntu's main products are year.month in format, eg. Ubuntu 22.04 LTS is the 2022-April release of Ubuntu Desktop, Ubuntu Server etc. (2000 is added to the year). There are also specialist snap only versions available, eg. Ubuntu Core 22 (released on 2022-June) is specialist flavor of Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Server, ie. 22 & 22.04 represent different products. Whilst 22.04 (or any year.month products, thus also 22.10) can use deb and snap packages (ie. can use the apt install and snap install commands), the 22 flavor is snap only thus can only use snap install) – guiverc Feb 04 '23 at 01:05
  • If you installed Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Desktop, then I'd expect the user you created to be found in the sudoers file, however Ubuntu has many products with various ISOs that can install with different options; you weren't clear mentioning only 22 (I'm a Desktop user thus more familiar with the year.month products such as 22.04 & 22.10) so your install's defaults depend on your actually installed product, and Ubuntu 22 OS is very unclear (Ubuntu Core 22 being the closest). Being precise with details, help us to provide more useful advice in reply. – guiverc Feb 04 '23 at 01:21
  • Apologies, I'm using 22.04.1. I just tried using sudo snap install ./code-latest.deb and it didn't work either. It raised the same error 'user is not in the sudoers file.' – Mike Landress Feb 04 '23 at 01:48
  • You should correct your question when it's incorrect (22 vs 22.04; the .1 to me anyway is optional), but code-latest.deb clearly shows it's likely a DEB file & thus snap install won't work. If the file may have been renamed, you can ask the system to confirm what type it is (using file which looks at the contents of the file for its report) with SNAP files installed using snap, and DEB files installed with dpkg (or front-ends like apt). Ubuntu 22.04 still doesn't tell us if you installed Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Server, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Desktop etc.. as they can have different defaults. – guiverc Feb 04 '23 at 02:07

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