Yeees, but app-installer tool was primarily meant to be invoked by the
osso-application-installer via sudo. It was kind of unanticipated
that people are using it from the command line so much. I actually
only created app-installer-tool so that I could use sudo to do the
user switching
It's con
"ext Kasper Souren" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I guess app-installer-tool should actually be smart, and switch to
> user install if it's running as root...
Yeees, but app-installer tool was primarily meant to be invoked by the
osso-application-installer via sudo. It was kind of unanticipated
On 5/7/06, Kasper Souren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> - is there a way to rescue the 'App installer' functionslity after
> installing sthng as root, and damaging the App. installer?
Probably, but I don't know exactly how.
One thing you could try is the "Load/Mem applet with run capability" on
- is there a way to rescue the 'App installer' functionslity after
installing sthng as root,
and damaging the App. installer?
Probably, but I don't know exactly how.
is sudo gainroot and dpkg -X xxx.deb /var/lib/install a good way to
install further things? Are those further installations safe
> I know
> app-installer-tool is suppsed to run as user,
It is actually supposed to run as the user "install", like so
Aha.. What about ownership in /var/lib/install?
> but I tend to always use it as root.
That might leave files behind that can not be modified by the
"install" user, and thus
"ext Kasper Souren" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I know
> app-installer-tool is suppsed to run as user,
It is actually supposed to run as the user "install", like so
$ sudo -u install /usr/bin/app-installer-tool list
> but I tend to always use it as root.
That might leave files behind that
Sending this to maemo-developers, maybe someone there knows more about
how to tackle this issue.
Now my feeling is that it is definitely python-related, coz' last night
I made one more experiment, installing the following things on a fresh German
machine (who knows...!)
1. ossoXterm, FBReader,
