Re: [Fwd: [expert] MandrakeUpdate as normal user]

[Larry Sword]

Benjamin Sher wrote:

> Dear Alan:
>
> Thanks for the advice. Appreciate it.
>
> HOWEVER, there is an Update button on Mandrake's Desktop. It must be
> there for a purpose. Indeed, when you click on it, it opens up sends
> down various rpms for your select, asks you for your root password,
> reviews the packages and then clams shut. This is a bug, not a feature
> :) If you are going to have an Update button on your user's desktop, it
> ought to work. The update button on root's desktop works fine. It works
> exactly the same way as user (of course, it doesn't have to ask for a
> password). The difference is that it delivers the goods, fetching and
> installing the rpms perfectly. Now that's what I would like to see on
> the user's desktop, too.
>
> Ben

The  updates icon on my system, as user, works fine. Do you have the
latest package. It's  version MandrakeUpdate-6.1-3mdk.