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

[John Aldrich]

On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, you 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.
> 
Hmm...perhaps you don't have the correct root password? All I know is
that it works here on Mandrake 6.0. *shrug*
        John