On 11/19/2012 11:38 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
Did you select for you to be in the administartors group? If so you can now do a lot of things previously restricted to root; one of them is install software. But everytime you have to authenticate YOURSELF.
Just to close things off, I've logged onto the laptop, removed myself from wheel and things are working the way I want. However, if I run it from the menu and there are no updates, it simply tells me there's nothing to do and exits. I need to run it from a terminal:
yumex --update-only
if I want to be able to use it to install/uninstall stuff. I think I'm going to edit the menu entry to get it to Do What I Want.