On Sat, Jun 26, 1999 at 08:25:05PM -0400, Stuart Ballard wrote: > Is it possible to arrange for gnome-apt to be usable by a non-root user?
Yes, there is sudo. or, I think, you can (in a Xterm ) su <password> export XAUTHORITY=/home/user/.Xauthority gnome-apt It should work but I've not tried. > To run it as root I have to mess about with X authorization and even > once that is done my GTK themes aren't respected. I guess my question > can be broken down as follows (and an answer to either part would be > enough) > > 1) Is there a way to run programs as root from X, respecting such things > as the current GTK theme; OR > > 2) Is there a way to enable a regular user to run apt/dpkg/gnome-apt? > > Thanks in advance, > Stuart. > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > -- | . ICQ : 25529539 | | |\ | | | \ / AIM : linhax |___ | | \| |__| / \ IRC nick : linhax Sami Dalouche : [EMAIL PROTECTED] DHIS : pingoo.dhis.org
