On Saturday 03 February 2018 23:27:11 Paul Wise wrote: > On Sun, Feb 4, 2018 at 10:14 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > It turns that I am not supposed to be running aptitude as root. > > If you want it to make changes to the system you must run it as root. > > > but my sudo password doesn't give me root permissions > > when its time to actually do something. > > That seems quite unlikely, what error message does it give?
Says its not root's pw. But I can sudo -i and run it. -- Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
