apt-watch ask for the root password

[Bill Christiansen]

Yeah, I gave apt-watch a try too. It has some potentially nice
features like automatic downloading of updates and ability to choose
your preffered package manager to install but it doesn't work with
sudo so you have to give your root account an actual password. Also I
think it uses a different package cache because even though I upgraded
in Synaptic, apt-watch told me I still had upgrades available. I
uninstalled it on my system and I will wait for the official Ubuntu
notifier in Hoary.


On 08 Nov 2004 16:15:15 -0500, Godfrey <glam at 295.ca> wrote:
> Dear ubuntu brothers and sisters,
> 
> Install apt-watch, add it panel.  After it finishs checking for
> updates, the light bulb is on, then I double click it, It prompt by
> saying "Running Synapic as root. Password:", so I key in the "old
> friend" sudo password, then it's says "Authentication
> failure". Meanwhile I use the vary same password when doing sudo.
> Anybody have the same problem?
> 
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