{"id":188,"date":"2009-12-14T12:37:49","date_gmt":"2009-12-14T11:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hoover.gplrank.de\/?p=188"},"modified":"2009-12-14T12:37:49","modified_gmt":"2009-12-14T11:37:49","slug":"linux-mint-8-helena-how-to-fix-mintupdate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoover.gplrank.de\/?p=188","title":{"rendered":"Linux Mint 8 Helena: How to fix mintupdate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A while ago, mintupdate stopped working for me, claiming it was unable to grant execute permissions to the non-admin user. Investigating a bit further, I found that my regular user &#8220;hoover&#8221; had gone missing (for whatever reason) from the &#8220;admin&#8221; group; this can be fixed by re-adding your regular user to this group.<\/p>\n<p>Simply open a shell and type<\/p>\n<pre>sudo usermod -G admin &lt;your_username&gt;<\/pre>\n<p>and mintupdate should work again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A while ago, mintupdate stopped working for me, claiming it was unable to grant execute permissions to the non-admin user. Investigating a bit further, I found that my regular user &#8220;hoover&#8221; had gone missing (for whatever reason) from the &#8220;admin&#8221; group; this can be fixed by re-adding your regular user to this group. Simply open [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoover.gplrank.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoover.gplrank.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoover.gplrank.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoover.gplrank.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoover.gplrank.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hoover.gplrank.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":189,"href":"https:\/\/hoover.gplrank.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions\/189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoover.gplrank.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoover.gplrank.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoover.gplrank.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}