You are trying to avoid apt-get/Synaptic and use KPackageKit instead? regardless of the GUI application you are using, I would think apt or dpkg is playing a part when installing binaries from the repositories. Are you opening KPackageKit with sudo?
Chris... On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 9:50 PM, Jeff Lasman <jpli...@nobaloney.net> wrote: > I need to update some stuff for kubuntu 9.10. And install some new stuff. > > I know I can install the new stuff through apt-get and even through Synaptic. > > But I've always used KPackageKit and now each time I try it tells me the user > can't authenticate. Everything else works as far as authentication is > concerned. > > Any ideas where I should look? > > Thanks. > > Jeff > -- > Jeff Lasman > Post Office Box 52200, Riverside, CA 92517 > Our jplists address used on lists is for list email only > Phone +1 909 266-9209, or see: "http://www.nobaloney.net/contactus.html"; > _______________________________________________ > LinuxUsers mailing list > LinuxUsers@socallinux.org > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers > -- "As we open our newspapers or watch our television screens, we seem to be continually assaulted by the fruits of Mankind's stupidity." -Roger Penrose _______________________________________________ LinuxUsers mailing list LinuxUsers@socallinux.org http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers
