apt-watch

Michael Beattie mtbeedee at gmail.com
Fri May 20 17:33:50 UTC 2005


On 5/20/05, Frank McCormick <fmccormick at videotron.ca> wrote:
> 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.
> 

You dont need a root account... the password it wants is your user password.




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