works fine for me as root and also as a normal user.
Lyndon Lininger Sr.
----- Original Message -----
From: Benjamin Sher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 1999 9:02 PM
Subject: Re: [Fwd: [expert] MandrakeUpdate as normal user]
> 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
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