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Author: der.hans via PLUG-discuss
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To: Brian Cluff via PLUG-discuss
CC: der.hans
Subject: Re: non-admin GUI deb installs
Am 07. Jun, 2020 schwätzte Brian Cluff via PLUG-discuss so:

moin moin,

> 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.


Forgot about polkit. Never used it, but have seen it mentioned. Will look
at it. Danke!

ciao,

der.hans

> 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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