Tom Cook, 2002-Oct-23 15:45 +0930: > On 0, Jeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [snip] > > I get something similar running > > > > $ sudo apt-get update && apt-get upgrade > > > > The update works fine, but the upgrade gets this: > > > > <snipped update stuff> > > Fetched 2287kB in 13s (172kB/s) > > > > Reading Package Lists... Done > > Building Dependency Tree... Done > > 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? > > That would be because your shell is dividing the line: > > sudo apt-get update && apt-get upgrade > > into two commands: > > sudo apt-get update > apt-get upgrade > > Shell parsing happens before the command is executed! You could do > this: > > sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade > > but then you might get prompted for your password twice.
Ah, I see. And, I get prompted for password on for the first one only, so this works. sudo will use the first password for a certain amount of time before it will ask again, within the same shell. thanks, jc -- Jeff Coppock Systems Engineer Diggin' Debian Admin and User -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
