Hi,
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Michael Marsh<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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.
I don't use aptitude interactively, only from the command line:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ aptitude update
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done
E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/apt/lists/lock - open (13 Permission
denied)
E: Couldn't lock list directory..are you root?
Andy
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