[SOLVED] Root to install

[getitright]

When attempting to manually install updates to an application I get the message:

"You must be root to install updates."

Is this normal? And can it be bypassed?

[NeoTaoistTechnoPagan]

That's inherent to any Linux distro, you need to be the root user to perform system-wide tasks.

The simple way around this is to use the "sudo" command (super-user-do)

I would assume that you were trying to use
apt-get upgrade foo

try it with
sudo apt-get upgrade foo

it will ask for a password, just enter the pass for your user

[Perfect Storm]

You don't tell how and with what.

If it via commandline you have to use sudo

eg;

sudo apt-get update

[NeoTaoistTechnoPagan]

You don't tell how and with what.



He did say 'manually install update' - so that would mean CLI.

[Dacker]

yes, sudo will meet your needs because of its availability to access temporarily as a root account and after that will ask for the passwd of your account so this password will be on for 15 minute...
the best place to know more is

man sudo

[Perfect Storm]

He did say 'manually install update' - so that would mean CLI.

No he said "manually install updates to an application", which can be many things.