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Friday March 29, 2002

12:15 PM

[ #3856 ]

This has pissed me off forever and a day:

E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/sw/var/lib/dpkg/), are you root?

Well, am I root? You tell me, you're the damned computer.

Never, ever ask anything of the user that the program already knows.

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Well, er, um... (Score:1)

by brentdax (2147)

...it's trying to remind you that you have to be in case you forgot and just happened to be on root? Yeah, that's it! :^)