apt-watch

Frank McCormick fmccormick at videotron.ca
Fri May 20 19:14:26 UTC 2005


On Fri, 20 May 2005 13:33:50 -0400
Michael Beattie <mtbeedee at gmail.com> wrote:

> > >
> > > 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.
> 

  That's what I gave it - and it told me failure.  Dennis K says
apt-watch is not integrated into Ubuntu so I'd have to enable a root
account. I think I'll just upgrade to Hoary and use its notifier.

Cheers




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