non-admin GUI deb installs

der.hans PLUGd at LuftHans.com
Sun Jun 7 01:12:30 MST 2020


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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