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Relatively new to ubuntu...after installation i was able to install software with software center. Now, however, i get the message that I don't have permission to install software. There are no details and it is not prompting me for credentials or anything.

In between install ubuntu with software install privileges and now I have been setting up the system with zabbix, nginx, php, mysql, eclipse, etc....with no problems.

I also do not have privileges in software & updates etc.

Thanks in advance for any help!

Here is the output of sudo apt update:

jparker@jparker-desktop:~$ sudo apt update
Hit:1 security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security InRelease
Hit:2 us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic InRelease          
Ign:3 dl.google.com/linux/chrome-remote-desktop/deb stable InRelease    
Hit:4 us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates InRelease             
Hit:5 ppa.launchpad.net/x2go/stable/ubuntu bionic InRelease             
Ign:6 dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable InRelease                   
Hit:7 us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-backports InRelease           
Hit:8 dl.google.com/linux/chrome-remote-desktop/deb stable Release
Hit:9 dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable Release
Reading package lists... Done                      
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
18 packages can be upgraded. Run 'apt list --upgradable' to see them.
jparker@jparker-desktop:~$

Here is the output of echo $UID

jparker@jparker-desktop:~$ echo $UID
1000
N0rbert
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user2639421
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    Please [edit] your question and add output of `sudo apt update` command. – Pilot6 Sep 18 '19 at 15:24
  • Also please add output of `echo $UID` – Pilot6 Sep 18 '19 at 15:26
  • note: i had to remove the http:// at the beginning of each package in case you're thinking that looks weird. reputation points or something..... – user2639421 Sep 18 '19 at 16:07
  • Instead of removing `http` you can select the text and press `{}` format soft button. – Pilot6 Sep 18 '19 at 16:20
  • All looks OK in terminal. You have permissions to update and upgrade. Regarding the GUI you seem to break something there yourself. – Pilot6 Sep 18 '19 at 16:21
  • i'm not sure how i would have broken something as most of everything i installed/setup was through command line - wasn't even using the GUI for that. That's what's so confusing. I looked into polkit etc - that doesn't seem to affect this at all. Not sure what to look at. – user2639421 Sep 18 '19 at 16:39
  • You can break everything using the command line. Now you can upgrade packages using `sudo apt upgrade`. – Pilot6 Sep 18 '19 at 16:40
  • Any idea how I would go about debugging this? – user2639421 Sep 27 '19 at 17:59

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i found the solution here: Error instead of password prompt when admin privileges needed.

It had something to do with my installation of x2go....

user2639421
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