On 2013-03-04 10:35, Colin Law wrote: > The terminal commands have not changed as far as I know.
No, they haven't. The Ubuntu updater uses PolicyKit. As others have noted, it allows updates to packages without passwords, but not installation of new packages. This is a good design. The CLI utilities don't use PolicyKit and therefore need sudo or the root user to install/update anything. Regards, Tyler -- ""Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man." -- Mark Twain -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
