Re: aptitude is blowing up again.
On Saturday 03 February 2018 23:27:11 Paul Wise wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 4, 2018 at 10:14 AM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > It turns that I am not supposed to be running aptitude as root.
>
> If you want it to make changes to the system you must run it as root.
>
> > but my sudo password doesn't give me root permissions
> > when its time to actually do something.
>
> That seems quite unlikely, what error message does it give?
Says its not root's pw.
But I can sudo -i and run it.
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