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I am in the processing of installing singularity using the terminal on my Linux Mint computer (Ubuntu).

I have the following command:

sudo apt-get update

The computer then asks me to enter my password:

[sudo] password for user:

When I enter my password, the computer gives me the error:

user emre is not allowed to execute '/usr/bin/apt-get udpate' as root on spiers06

However, I have checked that I have SUDO privileges, which my linux terminal confirms that I do, so I am unsure as to why the computer may be giving me this error.

I would be so grateful for a helping hand!

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  • Well, you probably should run sudo -l and compare with whatever user, command and machine is listed in the message sudo gives you... Commented Oct 19, 2022 at 13:30
  • @Tomek when I run that command it says: 'user .. may run the following commands on ...: (root) NOPASSWD: /usr/lib/linuxmint/mintUpdate/checkAPT.py' - does this mean that I am only allowed to run one command on the linux terminal? Commented Oct 19, 2022 at 14:25
  • Yes. But it may in turn run apt as root which should allow you at least some apt operations. Unfortunately I am not an expert on apt, I am on rpm based distro... Commented Oct 19, 2022 at 14:31

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