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Thanks for your replies.

I'll have to investigate further. What i have at present is root password working for Synaptic but then strangely user password for running aptitude.

I suppose it doesn't matter using the user password for admin if one is a sole user of a home PC.

Much appreciate your quick response. Pleased to say i have found it in MX Teak - other.

I tried the 32bit version when i thought my PC was not 64bit and don't recall this.

I did read a post about Debian not setting default root privileges but was unsure if MX had implemented that.

I have just done a re-install of 23.5 - 64 bit.

I noticed when i did the synaptic updates the root password did not work and used the user password instead to authenticate in synaptic. This didn't happen before so i am wondering what i have done wrong. On the install i definitely checked the box ...

I haven't been doing this for a while. For the new version last month i thought i should before installing.

After putting the DVD in the drive, in the terminal iirc one should do
cd /dev/sda then sha256sum 'name of iso'
it comes back no such directory.

I've mislaid my linux book so can't look ...

I haven't been doing this for a while. For the new version last month i thought i should before installing.

After putting the DVD in the drive, in the terminal iirc one should do
cd /dev/sda then sha256sum 'name of iso'
it comes back no such directory.

I've mislaid my linux book so can't look it ...

Ok thx for your contributions - we'll wait and see.

I also belong to a Debian list and have seen a msg that suggests that after Debian 12 there will not be another 32 bit release. I can only guess that MX will not be doing another - is that true?

It would seem that there is a problem with the graphics card and i would be grateful for advice. I do have a Nvidia card which i could put in but not sure how one shuts of the built in Intel one. Presumably it is in the BIOS.

Just received a msg that Claws has a new release today [10jun24] for adding to the repo. Presume some on MX use it.

[CODE]System:
Kernel: 6.8.12-686-pae [6.8.12-1~mx23ahs] arch: i686 bits: 32 compiler: N/A
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-6.8.12-686-pae root=UUID=<filter> ro quiet splash
Desktop: Xfce v: 4.18.1 tk: Gtk v: 3.24.36 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm v: 4.18.0 vt: 7
dm: LightDM v: 1.26.0 Distro: MX ...