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Der Chefkoch

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Registered: 2020-12-05

Posts: 100

[SOLVED] You cannot perform this operation unless you are root

Just wanted to do a little system maintenance for once using "sudo pacman -Qtdq | pacman -Rns -"  to clean orphans, yet I get the error message "You cannot perform this operation unless you are root"

Yes I used sudo, why is this not working?

Cheers

Last edited by Der Chefkoch (2022-06-01 12:11:25)

dogknowsnx

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Re: [SOLVED] You cannot perform this operation unless you are root

You need sudo for the pipe, not the query...

Der Chefkoch

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Registered: 2020-12-05

Posts: 100

Re: [SOLVED] You cannot perform this operation unless you are root

You need sudo for the pipe, not the query...

And again I learned something, thank you.

dogknowsnx

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Re: [SOLVED] You cannot perform this operation unless you are root

I hope you didn't "learn" that all piped commands need elevated privileges...