For security reasons root login has been disabled in Kubuntu/Ubuntu. Here are the quick steps to enable root access to KDE 1. Edit kdmrc file in /etc/kde4/kdm and change AllowRootLogin=false to AllowRootLogin=true Use the following command line option to achieve this: #sudo sed -i ‘s/AllowRootLogin=false/AllowRootLogin=true/g’ 2. Set password for root account and enable it. To […]
Fix a “E: The method driver /usr/lib/apt/methods/http could not be found.” error
Following is an error encountered on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS $ sudo apt-get update E: The method driver /usr/lib/apt/methods/http could not be found. This can be easily fixed by installing apt-transport-https as follows. sudo apt-get install apt-transport-https