Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: ray carter Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: what the hell? Date: 24 Dec 2015 15:23:07 GMT Lines: 27 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net BZ/552fEnnCJ62ivuK4tyw887Kwucuig/r5o/9/7/LIKXkGBx6 Cancel-Lock: sha1:EEMB7ZwDbt/KT+UhU3vHanBfiSM= User-Agent: Pan/0.139 (Sexual Chocolate; GIT bf56508 git://git.gnome.org/pan2) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:16541 On Thu, 24 Dec 2015 11:43:25 +0000, Henry Wilson wrote: > On Thu, 24 Dec 2015 00:28:42 +0000, William Unruh wrote: > >> On 2015-12-23, HGW wrote: >>> What does this mean? >>> 'requested operation requires superuser privilege' >>> >>> How the hell am I supposed to do anything with terminal when this >>> comes up? >>> >>> >> Since you do not tell us what you were trying to do, we cannot help >> you. > > I was doing exactly what some expert told me to do. I copied the command > that was supposed to install a package. > >> What it means is that only root can carry out the "requested >> operation", >> whatever it was. Use sudo, or su and try again. > > Why doesn't Linux get rid of such unnecessary complications? If you don't like it, you can always run everything with root privilege, though it's not recommended for security reasons. It's an important protection rather than an unnecessary complication, IMHO.