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apt-setup package

  1. Bug #74747
  2. Comment #5

Comment 5 for bug 74747

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote : Re: [Bug 74747] Re: Default sources.list file has source packages enabled by default

'apt-get source' and similar operations typically run as non-root users.
'apt-get update' needs to run as root.

If somebody wants to improve apt somehow, definitely be my guest, but
I'm not going to put the cart before the horse.