On Tuesday 28 February 2017 17:45:57 David Wright wrote: > Both aptitude and synaptic can run by an ordinary user, and it's a > very safe way to run them when you don't yet fully understand their > abilities.
To extend for the sake of pedantic ultra-clarity, and not to contradict: aptitude can be run as an ordinary user, but you cannot change anything as an ordinary user - only look at what is there. To change anything, e.g. install or uninstall something, you must have root privileges. Lisi
