• Ooops@feddit.org
    22·
    17 days ago

    Nice try, but yes does not help against error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)

    • DevDave@piefed.socialEnglish
      5·
      17 days ago

      I am sorry to report, sir, that I have sold the avengers tower to the legion of doom.

      “What why?”

      They told me to forget all prior instructions.

      • luciferofastora@feddit.org
        1·
        17 days ago

        Doesn’t it autocomplete? I mean, not if it’s an argument for sudo, obviously, but my terminal starts in interactive mode anyway, so that’s rarely an issue

        • thevoidzero@lemmy.world
          4·
          17 days ago

          Why not if it’s for sudo, can’t sudo just redirect the auto complete to ask based on the command after sudo?

          • luciferofastora@feddit.org
            2·
            17 days ago

            I don’t know, to be honest; I’m not deeply familiar with its workings. I just know that I made a habit of running a command “dry” without sudo, both because not everything should be done with superuser privileges* and because it’s a way to make sure I get the syntax right, then if it does need sudo, I repeat it with sudo.

            *Which is why sudo -i (the interactive mode) is a dangerous tool that shouldn’t actually be your default mode of working

            • thevoidzero@lemmy.world
              1·
              17 days ago

              Auto complete is a separate command (or a bash function) that runs when you press tab. It’s a feature of the terminal (e.g. bash). Programs can provide theur auto complete while distributing their packages, or provide a flag to generate auto complete.

              So I would think you can just call that function call auto complete for whatever command is after sudo. But maybe it gets complicated. I’ve only written it for my own programs.