Re: [tlug] Software center gone

[Thomas Blasejewicz <nyuwa@example.com>]

On 2015/06/28 18:07, Attila Kinali wrote:
> On Sat, 27 Jun 2015 23:23:06 +0900
> Thomas Blasejewicz <nyuwa@example.com> wrote:
>
>
> > A package failed to install.  Trying to recover:
> > Setting up install-info (5.2.0.dfsg.1-2) ...
> > /etc/environment: line 2: MUFFIN_NO_SHADOWS: command not found
> > dpkg: error processing package install-info (--configure):
> >    subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit
> > status 127
> > Errors were encountered while processing:
> >    install-info
> That sounds like your install-info package got corrupted.
> Try running the following two commands as root:
>
> apt-get clean
> apt-get install --reinstall install-info
>
> 				Attila Kinali
I would love to do that ... but the computer will not let me do it.
There are two user accounts, both of which are "standard", so that I am 
told, I have no permission:
"sorry, user xxx is not allowed to execute /usr/bin/apt-get clean as root"

I tried to precede the command by
sudo
sudo su
sudo -i

but so far nothing.

Upsetting the installation THAT easily and then having SO much trouble 
to correct it ...
does not seem to speak in favor of the famous Linux stability and security.
Or am I, as usual, just "not getting it"?
Thomas