On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 11:13:13AM -0700, tom arnall wrote: > On Wednesday 21 March 2007 10:42, Greg Folkert wrote: > > On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 10:41 -0700, tom arnall wrote: > > > when you do an apt-get upgrade, does it matter it you do it as 'root'? > > > > Please ask a better question. > > -- > what is the problem with this one? > ;o)
Maybe the implication was that you could have just tried it, and perhaps noted what happened, in your query. That's just a a guess, as my mind-reading skills are still lacking despite many years of marriage... In general, the debian packaging system requires root permissions to make changes. At one point (probably in the archives) I wondered if it should be possible for a user to apt-get install a package as a user, e.g., in some limited, user-local location. This seems reasonable, but the packaging system just isn't set up to do it. It could be, but it isn't. Ken -- Ken Irving -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
