Why can't I create posts/comments on Lemmy with copy/paste from terminal to show what I did wrong?
So I tried to install a fan script last night. It's supposed to be a 1 line of code.
But even though it's a brand new installation of ubuntu, my system says "No. You need to install curl first"
When I try to do that, my system says "no, you already have a more recent version of curl installed"
I'd love to copy/paste the exact text, so you guys could see what I see, but when I do that, either in comments or in new posts, Lemmy gets confused, and won't post it.
How do I get you guys a copy/paste of this, so you guys can say "Oh, you have to do this this and this"?
Ok, this is becoming what I remember not liking of not understanding linux.
I was supposed to just type one line of code
... curl https://download.argon40.com/argon1.sh | bash ...
And that led to me not having curl installed. After 24 hours of trying to figure this out, I finally figured out I need to type
... sudo snap install curl # version 8.1.2 ...
And so then I type
... curl https://download.argon40.com/argon1.sh | bash ...
again, and this time I get this.
...
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 19245 100 19245 ************* 0 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 0
0 0 4848 Argon Setup
0 0 --:--*************
:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 48598
E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend. It is held by process 6408 (unattended-upgr)
N: Be aware that removing the lock file is not a solution and may break your system.
E: Unable to acquire the dpkg frontend lock (/var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend), is another process using it?
Please also connect device to the internet and restart installation.
bighat@bighat-desktop:~$ ...
I have no idea what that lock is, or what to do. I was told "oh, it'll be easy, you just gotta put in this one line of code". Going on 4 years trying to get that fan to work...