Re: Using gnome-apt as non-root
On Sun, 27 Jun 1999, Havoc Pennington wrote:
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> On Sat, 26 Jun 1999, Stuart Ballard wrote:
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> > 1) Is there a way to run programs as root from X, respecting such things
> > as the current GTK theme; OR
> >
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> No, the theme is a per-user setting, so it won't apply to you while you're
> root. You could set the theme for the root user though.
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> > 2) Is there a way to enable a regular user to run apt/dpkg/gnome-apt?
> >
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> No, installing packages requires root permissions. gnome-apt might let you
> do package selections as a regular user eventually, but you'll always have
> to be root to actually install.
Maybe it's a reason to change it's behavour,
maybe we could have it ask for a password and do sudo in the background or
something, when installing.
Just my 2 cents.
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> Havoc
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