apt-watch

Frank McCormick fmccormick at videotron.ca
Fri May 20 17:15:08 UTC 2005


On Fri, 20 May 2005 17:47:12 +0100
Sam Tygier <samtygier at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> Frank McCormick wrote:
> > 
> > Just installed apt-watch on the panel --- it downloaded 60 megs of
> > upgrades...but then when I tried to get it to run synaptic, it
> > refused the root password ( I don't have a root account). Is this a
> > bug or am I missing something ?
> > 
> > 
> > Cheers
> 
> ubuntu uses sudo rather than a root account. you need to put in your
> normal password. see http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/RootSudo
> 

  Yes, that's what I did - but it said failure..or something along those
lines.  This is apparently because I don't have a root account. Strange
that there would be an applet that requires you to have a root account
??  By the way...I am still running Warty.

Cheers





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