Package: aptitude Version: 0.4.11.10-1 Severity: minor I (script, actually) want to run query-only actions of aptitude, such as 'search', as 'nobody' user (rationale: prevent aptitude from locking the /var/lib/dpkg/lock (and fail then) when other instances of apt or dpkg are running).
But now aptitude tries to create /nonexistent/.aptitude when runned as 'nobody' and obviously fails. -- Package-specific info: aptitude 0.4.11.10 compiled at Sep 14 2008 21:14:50 Compiler: g++ 4.3.2 Compiled against: apt version 4.6.0 NCurses version 5.6 libsigc++ version: 2.0.18 Ept support enabled. Current library versions: NCurses version: ncurses 5.6.20080925 cwidget version: 0.5.12 Apt version: 4.6.0 linux-vdso.so.1 => (0x00007fffa69fe000) libapt-pkg-libc6.7-6.so.4.6 => /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.7-6.so.4.6 (0x00007f759e394000) libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/libncursesw.so.5 (0x00007f759e149000) libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0x00007f759df44000) libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/libcwidget.so.3 (0x00007f759dc71000) libept.so.0 => /usr/lib/libept.so.0 (0x00007f759d9f8000) libxapian.so.15 => /usr/lib/libxapian.so.15 (0x00007f759d68e000) libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0x00007f759d477000) libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007f759d25b000) libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007f759cf4f000) libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x00007f759cccc000) libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007f759cab5000) libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x00007f759c762000) libutil.so.1 => /lib/libutil.so.1 (0x00007f759c55f000) libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f759c35b000) /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f759e654000) Terminal: xterm $DISPLAY is set. `which aptitude`: /usr/bin/aptitude aptitude version information: aptitude linkage: -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages aptitude depends on: ii apt [libapt-pkg-libc6. 0.7.15 Advanced front-end for dpkg ii libc6 2.7-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libcwidget3 0.5.12-3 high-level terminal interface libr ii libept0 0.5.25 High-level library for managing De ii libgcc1 1:4.3.2-1 GCC support library ii libncursesw5 5.6+20080925-1 shared libraries for terminal hand ii libsigc++-2.0-0c2a 2.0.18-2 type-safe Signal Framework for C++ ii libstdc++6 4.3.2-1 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libxapian15 1.0.7-3 Search engine library ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime Versions of packages aptitude recommends: ii aptitude-doc-en [aptitude-doc 0.4.11.9-1 English manual for aptitude, a ter ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.1.1-2 parse Debian changelogs and output Versions of packages aptitude suggests: ii debtags 1.7.7 Enables support for package tags pn tasksel <none> (no description available) -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]