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Can I avoid repeatedly typing admin pwd in Update Manager? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 weeks ago by ReluctantMuskrat@lemmy.world to c/linuxmint@lemmy.ml

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I've been using Mint for a while on a home server, running 21.3. I'm new to administering Linux despite years of using it in development and puzzled about how one can make Update Manager tolerable.

Update Manager is nice in showing updates that are available but I don't understand why one has to supply their administrator password multiple times. Why not just once like using sudo with command line tools? 2 or 3 times is annoying, but when a flatpak package is updated it can be 10-20 times before the updates are done. Is there anyway to avoid this? The fact that I don't see tons of complaints about this makes me think it's just me and I must have something mis-configured. Any ideas?

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