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Re: debugging package breakage



On Sunday 21 August 2011 16:48:07 Tom Roche wrote:
> me@it:~$ sudo cat /etc/apt/sources.list
>
> > deb http://packages.linuxmint.com/ debian main upstream import
> > deb http://debian.linuxmint.com/latest testing main contrib non-free
> > deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main contrib non-free
> > deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org testing main non-free

Why did you use sudo?  It is not necessary for this command, and it is 
generally considered better to act as root only when strictly necessary - as 
it would be, e.g., to edit your sources list.

Lisi


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