Can confirm that this is reproducible with the standard Ubuntu session
in 18.04.01 and 18.10, tested both with the vanilla install with no
updates and also fully updated.
However, notice a few things:
- If you repeatedly click the checkbox it will sometimes trigger the
authentication window
- The
Public bug reported:
If a user try to install for example Gimp with "apt install gimp"
(without sudo) he will be met with these errors:
E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (13: Permission denied)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), are you root?
If
Public bug reported:
Reproduce:
- Open "Software & Updates"
- Select the tab "Ubuntu Software"
- Click on one of the checkboxes under "Installable from CD-ROM/DVD"
- If you are asked for authentication, cancel out of the window and try
clicking on the checkbox again
Observe that you are not alwa
Occured here today. Running this simple command to remove old kernels
and unused packages worked around the issue:
sudo apt-get autoremove --purge
Alternatively, and to be able to remove even manually installed kernels, you
could use:
sudo purge-old-kernels
To be able to use purge-old-kernels
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