Re: how disable apt downloads w/o sudo

2022-09-12 Thread Tim Woodall
On Mon, 12 Sep 2022, jindam, vani wrote: i am concerned about *myself* Is your concern the use of bandwidth? yes Is a disk being filled up and running out of space? Something else? frankly, if the downloaded files cant be used, its *definitely* wastage of space Are you *only* concer

Re: how disable apt downloads w/o sudo

2022-09-12 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Mon, Sep 12, 2022 at 04:44:36PM +, jindam, vani wrote: > On 12 September 2022 1:04:51 PM UTC, Greg Wooledge wrote: > >Well, *I* don't understand your issue yet. Can you please explain it in > >more detail? > > > >Are you trying to stop other users on your system from doing this, or are > >

Re: how disable apt downloads w/o sudo

2022-09-12 Thread jindam, vani
On 12 September 2022 1:04:51 PM UTC, Greg Wooledge wrote: >On Mon, Sep 12, 2022 at 12:59:15PM +, jindam, vani wrote: >> On 12 September 2022 11:23:49 AM UTC, Tim Woodall >> wrote: >> >If the OP is complaining about: >> > >> >$ apt download reportbug >> >Get:1 http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debi

Re: how disable apt downloads w/o sudo

2022-09-12 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Mon, Sep 12, 2022 at 12:59:15PM +, jindam, vani wrote: > On 12 September 2022 11:23:49 AM UTC, Tim Woodall > wrote: > >If the OP is complaining about: > > > >$ apt download reportbug > >Get:1 http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian buster/main i386 reportbug all > >7.5.3~deb10u1 [128 kB] > >Fetche

Re: how disable apt downloads w/o sudo

2022-09-12 Thread jindam, vani
On 12 September 2022 11:23:49 AM UTC, Tim Woodall wrote: >On Mon, 12 Sep 2022, Greg Wooledge wrote: > >> On Mon, Sep 12, 2022 at 06:37:47AM +, jindam, vani wrote: >>> how do i stop apt downloads if i dont >>> use sudo. for ex: >>> $ apt install reportbug >> >> Since you posted your sample

Re: how disable apt downloads w/o sudo

2022-09-12 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Mon, Sep 12, 2022 at 12:23:49PM +0100, Tim Woodall wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 12, 2022 at 06:37:47AM +, jindam, vani wrote: > > > how do i stop apt downloads if i dont > > > use sudo. for ex: > > > $ apt install reportbug > If the OP is complaining about: > > $ apt download reportbug > Get:1 h

Re: how disable apt downloads w/o sudo

2022-09-12 Thread Tim Woodall
On Mon, 12 Sep 2022, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Mon, Sep 12, 2022 at 06:37:47AM +, jindam, vani wrote: how do i stop apt downloads if i dont use sudo. for ex: $ apt install reportbug Since you posted your sample command with a $ as the shell prompt, we assume that you are running the command

Re: how disable apt downloads w/o sudo

2022-09-12 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Mon, Sep 12, 2022 at 06:37:47AM +, jindam, vani wrote: > how do i stop apt downloads if i dont > use sudo. for ex: > $ apt install reportbug Since you posted your sample command with a $ as the shell prompt, we assume that you are running the command as a non-root user. That's what the $

Re: how disable apt downloads w/o sudo

2022-09-12 Thread Dan Ritter
jindam, vani wrote: > how do i stop apt downloads if i dont > use sudo. for ex: > $ apt install reportbug apt can't install things without root permissions. What is the actual result of typing the above command as a non-root user? -dsr-