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Re: Update Manager absurdity?- (FOLLOW-UP)



On (15/02/07 22:47), Celejar wrote:
> Speaking of learning, you shouldn't be running 'du' and 'dpkg -l' with
> sudo; they'll run just fine as a normal user.

I think you'll find 'du' complains if you run as a normal user.  The
reason being, it needs to descend into directories to gather usage
information and ordinary users won't necessarily have access.

Regards

Clive

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