Package: aptitude
Version: 0.6.0.1-1
Severity: important
When ncurses-based aptitude needs to become root and after it has asked for the
password, it seems
to be calling (from a bash script) 'aptitude--no-gui' (without intervening
space), which causes,
naturally enough a failure (with the
On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 03:34:03PM +0100, Jose Antonio Ortega Ruiz
j...@gnu.org was heard to say:
When ncurses-based aptitude needs to become root and after it has asked for
the password, it seems
to be calling (from a bash script) 'aptitude--no-gui' (without intervening
space), which
By the way, a workaround would be to use sudo instead, if that's
acceptable at your site. The sudo code doesn't have this bug. To do
that, set Aptitude::Get-Root-Command to sudo in apt.conf.
Daniel
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