On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 01:46:43PM +0200, emninger@??? wrote:

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>
> Thanks for your pointer. So, essentially, there is no way to play
> around the need of root.
>

Well, if you are not root, and you cannot become root, or you cannot
email root and ask him a favour, it might be quite frustrating to know
that there are new shiny versions of your software out there, which
you won't see on that machine any time soon... ;)

HND

KatolaZ

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