non-admin GUI deb installs

Brian Cluff brian at snaptek.com
Sun Jun 7 01:10:07 MST 2020


I believe that muon uses polkit.  You should be able to create your own 
rules to allow muon to install packages without having root access.

Brian Cluff

On 6/6/20 2:58 PM, der.hans via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> moin moin,
>
> Is there a way to allow users to install and uninstall packages from the
> GUI?
>
> I do it by starting an xterm and having sudo rules for apt :).
>
> But, I would like to give someone clicky clicky access.
>
> The particular use case is Ubuntu and debian running KDE.
>
> I want passwordless clicky clicky access to "apt update", "apt
> full-upgrade", "apt install <packages>", "apt remove <package>" and such.
>
> ciao,
>
> der.hans



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