Re: Enabling package installation for non-root users

[Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org>]

Hi,

Le jeudi 23 février 2012 à 16:32 +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz a
écrit : 
> I'm looking for a way to enable non-root users to install packages on
> their local machines, but not removing/purging them.
> 
> I know that probably the proper way to achieve that is PackageKit, but I
> was wondering if there is also a way to allow the use of apt-get, with
> constraints for certain options.

At work we use aptdaemon to do that. You only need to add a pkla file to
authorize the relevant actions, and aptdcon / software-center will allow
installation from the users you authorize (typically, users physically
logged on the machine).

(We even have a patch to allow only a subset of packages but it is
unfortunately a bit too hackish.)

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