On 1/11/06, Andy Hawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I accidentally used apt-get to install a few packages yesterday, and when my > nightly automatic aptitude update && aptitude -s -f dist-upgrade ran > overnight, it wants to remove the newly installed packages (mysql 4.1) and > replace them with the older ones.
You could always run aptitude from a regular user account instead of root. Interactive aptitude will prompt you for a password when it needs one, and you can use sudo for the non-interactive calls. Then it's simply a matter of not configuring sudo for apt-get. -- Michael A. Marsh http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~mmarsh http://mamarsh.blogspot.com
