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? -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise