Re: aptitude works as root, not with sudo

[Jeff <jcoppock1@attbi.com>]

Tom Cook, 2002-Oct-23 15:45 +0930:
> On  0, Jeff <jcoppock1@attbi.com> wrote:
> [snip]
> > I get something similar running
> > 
> > $ sudo apt-get update && apt-get upgrade
> > 
> > The update works fine, but the upgrade gets this:
> > 
> > <snipped update stuff>
> > Fetched 2287kB in 13s (172kB/s)                                                 
> >    
> > Reading Package Lists... Done
> > Building Dependency Tree... Done
> > E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (13 Permission denied)
> > E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), are you root?
> 
> That would be because your shell is dividing the line:
> 
> sudo apt-get update && apt-get upgrade
> 
> into two commands:
> 
> sudo apt-get update
> apt-get upgrade
> 
> Shell parsing happens before the command is executed!  You could do
> this:
> 
> sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
> 
> but then you might get prompted for your password twice.

Ah, I see.

And, I get prompted for password on for the first one only, so this
works.  sudo will use the first password for a certain amount of time
before it will ask again, within the same shell.

thanks,
jc


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