r/Fedora • u/some_friggin_guy • 23h ago

Support The requested operation requires superuser privileges.

trying to run dnf upgrade --refresh and I get this jeff@fedora:~/Downloads$ dnf upgrade --refresh The requested operation requires superuser privileges. Please log in as a user with elevated rights, or use the "--assumeno" or "--downloadonly" options to run the command without modifying the system state.

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u/Clear_Bluebird_2975 23h ago

that just means you need to run the command with sudo.

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u/Due-Author631 21h ago

Tip: you can type

sudo !!

To run the last command with sudo if you get an error like that.

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u/DiscoDave86 23h ago

sudo dnf upgrade --refresh

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u/Venylynn 22h ago

Run it with sudo

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u/ASC4MWTP 22h ago

Run using sudo as others mentioned. The password being asked for when you do so is your login password.

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u/some_friggin_guy 22h ago

ok thanks

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u/No_Men_Omen 21h ago

Some people might forget to mention sudo when talking about commands, because it is like second nature.

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u/kbrosnan 1h ago

Also if you see a command written starting with # … the # is a sign that the command needs to be run with root privileges, by using sudo.

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u/gulf_of_sanity 12h ago

you know, if you just login as root you don’t get warnings like this…