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sudo to allow apt-get install of remote packages, but forbidding arbitrary commands
I'm looking for a way to allow a user to install (only remote) packages via apt-get (or another mechanism?) but not allow them to run arbitrary commands as root.
I can get some of the way there via /...
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sudo apt-get update couldn't create temporary file
Tried to do sudo apt-get update, get this response every time I run it:
Get:1 http://repo.radeon.com/rocm/apt/debian xenial InRelease [1814 B]
Get:2 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security ...
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How to get debian apt to find packages correctly to install sudo
I've just installed debian 9 using the full disc image (debian-9.8.0-amd64-xfce-CD-1) to install on VirtualBox in a 64bit environment from a Windows 10 host. During the installation I unchecked the ...
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sudo: apt-get: command not found
I am trying to run the following command to install some libraries.
sudo apt-get install graphviz libgraphviz-dev pkg-config
It is however returning the following error.
sudo: apt-get: command not ...
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sudo is broken or not fully installed
Yeah...
I'm getting this error when using apt-get anything on a digitalocean droplet:
E: The package sudo needs to be reinstalled, but I can't find an archive for it.
So according to this answer, I ...
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"Unable to locate package sudo" when i try to install sudo on new Debian
i installed a new Debian on a small VPS and now when i try to install sudo i just get this message. I also tried to add FTP-Server into the list and i still get that error.
root@srv45758:~# vi /etc/...
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Why and what of curl and then sudo apt-get?
To install node on Linux, per the docs, I had to do:
curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_4.x | sudo -E bash -
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs
I get the second statement, but not the first.
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How to do sudo apt-get on an AIX machine
I don't understand this AIX.
How do I do sudo apt-get on AIX?
-bash-3.00$ sudo
-bash: sudo: command not found
-bash-3.00$ apt-get
-bash: apt-get: command not found
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How to add yourself to sudoers list?
I was trying to install a package using the command:
sudo apt-get install ruby-rvm
But I'm prompted with
nish is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported.
I tried to add myself to ...
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Removing MySQL completely on Linux
I'm fairly new to Linux, when I first installed MySQL it was during an LAMP setup on personal machine with a Ubuntu Setup. ATM, I'm trying to get a fresh, clean install of only MySQL. I've been to ...
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