apt-watch
Bob Nielsen
nielsen at oz.net
Sat May 21 02:49:23 UTC 2005
On Fri, 2005-05-20 at 15:14 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote:
> 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.
Check the script which calls it up and possibly you can modify that to
use gksudo instead of gksu or whatever it uses now.
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