Re: [tlug] Software center gone

[Attila Kinali <attila@example.com>]

On Sun, 28 Jun 2015 20:41:43 +0900
Thomas Blasejewicz <nyuwa@example.com> wrote:


> 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.

Weird. Either using "sudo " as a prefix, or first running "sudo su" and thus
changing to root, should give you the necessary permissions. At least on
the ubuntu installtions i have seen. What error messages do you get?
 
> 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"?

You had a crash, and probably one of the files that manage your installed
packages got corrupted. You can compare this to the corruption of
the software database on windows, which would mean you have to completely
reinstall the machine. On Linux you at least have a chance to fix that,
if you know which knobs to turn.

				Attila Kinali

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use without that foundation.
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