Installing drivers for a game

[lawentzel]

I am installing a game, and it requires Allegro drivers. During the installation it requires me to run a command as follows.

su -c "make install"

When I do, it asks me for a password. I am assuming this is the normal password I use for logging in and so forth. When I type it in, I am getting the following.

su: Authentication failure
Sorry.

So... what am I doing wrong? Does Ubuntu have any other passwords other then the default one I set up for my login? Thanks in advance.

[mac.ryan]

I am far from being a linux guru, but intuitively, I would type

sudo make install

In my understanding of the manual of "su", the option "-c" simply run a command, and therefore "sudo" should work the same.

Alternatively you could type

sudo -i
make install

in this way - however - you will be logged for the full session as root, therefore you should really pay attention to what you will be typing!

[lawentzel]

Thank you for your help. The first command:

sudo make install

Did the trick. I am one step closer to playing Kraptor! Got Allegro installed, just need to get the audio files installed. (Dumb) And I am good to go.

[Lystrodom]

Yeah, su asks for your root password, which you have to explicitly set up, by doing

sudo passwd

But there's not much point to it, unless you prefer to be logged in as root.