I am marking this bug as confirmed.
** Changed in: powertop (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/236158
Title:
make sudo suggestions/help text 'sud
In powertop.c
(http://code.google.com/p/powertop/source/browse/trunk/powertop.c)
there's a message when run without root capabilities.
901: if (geteuid() != 0)
902: printf(_("PowerTOP needs to be run as root to collect enough
information\n"));
A change suggestion that would help beginner users
Talking to Arjan (of the original authors), the language change could be
done if the opinion for doing this would be strong enough, i.e. ovewcome
the nuisance of having to get new translations. It seems translations
are handled outside of the original authors' source trees.
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make sudo suggestio
