Re: apt-get: Command not found.

From: James Burke (james_at_priller.co.uk)
Date: 08/02/05

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    On Tue, 02 Aug 2005 09:30:30 -0400
    Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@verizon.net> wrote:

    > On Tuesday 02 August 2005 07:09, James Burke wrote:
    > >Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@verizon.net> wrote:
    > >> Did you use the - option to su when you became root to do that
    > >> stuff?
    > >>
    > >> I doubt that apt-get or any of its ilk are available if you do a
    > >> plain su, which, unlike doing an 'su -' does not give you roots
    > >> $PATH.
    > >
    > >It shouldn't matter how you use su because apt-get is in a users
    > > $PATH.
    >
    > Mmm, sorry. I had assumed that it was a root only admin tool.
    >

    Only root can use it because a normal users cant read the lock file. 

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