During installation you have the choice: you either allow root login and enter a root password, then you have to use a root console for admin tasks. My preferred method. Or you don't do that then you automatically are assigned to the sudoers group and you have to use a sudo before each admin command. Don't try to mix.

where was that option i must of missed it during setup.

i see, so i forgot to assigned it.

should i reinstall?

talion is not in the sudoers file how do i fix that

Add your user to the sudoers file or the sudo group, e.g. as described at https://wiki.debian.org/sudo/#Granting_sudo_access or by 'man sudoers'.

That message tells you exactly what to do.

I don't have, nor have ever had, a single install that wasn't set up with both an unlocked root account and sudo. There's no reason whatsoever not to "mix", besides it requiring a trivial extra step after installation.

it gives me this error: talion is not in the sudoers file how do i fix that it?

During installation you have the choice: you either allow root login and enter a root password, then you have to use a root console for admin tasks. My preferred method. Or you don't do that then you automatically are assigned to the sudoers group and you have to use a sudo before each admin command. Don't try to mix.

it gives me this error: talion is not in the sudoers file how do i fix that it?

for wientricks i got thi error.

Using winetricks 20250102 - sha256sum: 9df4af038f04c753f3b0b02817cf60a51d8eac32357d070c45dfd139b93bd3f5 with wine-10.0 (Debian 10.0~repack-6) and WINEARCH=win64
No arguments given, so tried to start GUI, but neither zenity
nor kdialog were found. Please install one of them if you want
a graphical interface, or run with --help for more options.

Everybody experienced would be very pleased if you could put any console output between code tags, including the command you have used. To write code tags use the button that is labelled code above the editing window, and paste the text between the starter and the end tag. Makes console outputs look like in a console, much more readable and more friendly for the contributors.

I will do this for you as an example by copying your last output and! adding line numbers like a reasonable text editor can do.

cat /etc/apt/sources.list
1 #deb cdrom:[Devuan GNU/Linux 6.0.0-rc1 excalibur amd64 - netinstall 20250913]/ excalibur contrib main non-free-firmware
2
3 deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged excalibur main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
4 deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged excalibur-security main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
5 deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged excalibur-updates main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
6
7 #deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged excalibur-backports main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
8
9 # excalibur-updates, to get updates before a point release is made;
10 # see https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debi … _backports
11 deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged excalibur-updates main non-free-firmware
12 deb-src http://deb.devuan.org/merged excalibur-updates main non-free-firmware
13
14 # This system was installed using removable media other than
15 # CD/DVD/BD (e.g. USB stick, SD card, ISO image file).
16 # The matching "deb cdrom" entries were disabled at the end
17 # of the installation process.
18 # For information about how to configure apt package sources,
19 # see the sources.list(5) manual.

Your sources.list contains 19 lines of text.

Line 5 and line 11 are (partial) duplicates. Line 11 causes the error messages you are getting.

My advise: get rid of every past line 8 and try again. Attention: there has to be an empty line at the end of the file.

sorry for the trouble, im new ath this distro. still learning how it. i removed the lined an now updating works.

thanks for the help. got winetricks to install.

I will do this for you as an example by copying your last output and! adding line numbers like a reasonable text editor can do.

 cat /etc/apt/sources.list
1 #deb cdrom:[Devuan GNU/Linux 6.0.0-rc1 excalibur amd64 - netinstall 20250913]/ excalibur contrib main non-free-firmware
2 
3 deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged excalibur main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
4 deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged excalibur-security main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
5 deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged excalibur-updates main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
6
7 #deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged excalibur-backports main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
8
9 # excalibur-updates, to get updates before a point release is made;
10 # see https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debi … _backports
11 deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged excalibur-updates main non-free-firmware
12 deb-src http://deb.devuan.org/merged excalibur-updates main non-free-firmware
13
14 # This system was installed using removable media other than
15 # CD/DVD/BD (e.g. USB stick, SD card, ISO image file).
16 # The matching "deb cdrom" entries were disabled at the end
17 # of the installation process.
18 # For information about how to configure apt package sources,
19 # see the sources.list(5) manual.

Your sources.list contains 19 lines of text.

Line 5 and line 11 are (partial) duplicates. Line 11 causes the error messages you are getting.

My advise: get rid of every past line 8 and try again. Attention: there has to be an empty line at the end of the file.

cat /etc/apt/sources.list

#deb cdrom:[Devuan GNU/Linux 6.0.0-rc1 excalibur amd64 - netinstall 20250913]/ excalibur contrib main non-free-firmware

deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged excalibur main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged excalibur-security main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged excalibur-updates main contrib non-free non-free-firmware

#deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged excalibur-backports main contrib non-free non-free-firmware

# excalibur-updates, to get updates before a point release is made;
# see https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debi … _backports
deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged excalibur-updates main non-free-firmware
deb-src http://deb.devuan.org/merged excalibur-updates main non-free-firmware

# This system was installed using removable media other than
# CD/DVD/BD (e.g. USB stick, SD card, ISO image file).
# The matching "deb cdrom" entries were disabled at the end
# of the installation process.
# For information about how to configure apt package sources,
# see the sources.list(5) manual.

This is saying line 5 is a duplicate

/etc/apt/sources.list:5

so i remove the fifth line?

/etc/apt/sources.list:5

i got this error after saving it. what should i do?

Don't get confused by tux_99's reply. What I gave you is a correct /etc/apt/sources.list for Excalibur. The traditional format.

Now what tux_99 has posted is the new DEB822 format replacing the sources.list in the future. For the time being I would recommend to stay with the traditional format.

cool sweet, so i avoid using his an use the current format.

sounds like im all set then .