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Re: apt/dselect unnice ness



On Wed, 24 Feb 1999, Shaleh wrote:

> $ dselect
> 
> < I choose [i]nstall >
> 
> E: Could not open lock file /var/cache/apt/lock - open (13 Permission denied)
> E: Couldn't lock the cache dir, /var/cache/apt/ another process is using it
> Some errors occurred while unpacking. I'm going to configure the
> packages that were installed. This may result in duplicate errors
> or errors caused by missing dependencies. This is OK, only the errors
> above this message are important. Please fix them and run [I]nstall again
> Press enter to continue.

What version is this? It was changed at some point, it is definately right
in 0.3.0

> If not root, it should simply say: You need to run this as root and kill the
> rest of the errors.

APTv3 can run quite well as non-root for a good degree of function so this
is not an option.

Jason


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