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Originally Posted by skatebiker View Post
I earlier installed 0.31 which did not work, I upgraded to this version and it still does not work (after reboot), I see no icon in the top icon bar......
I tried again from the cmd line:
Code:
pocketpenguin:/home/user/MyDocs# apt-get install quickclip
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  quickclip
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 38 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/43.6kB of archives.
After unpacking 315kB of additional disk space will be used.
WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!
  quickclip
Install these packages without verification [y/N]? y
(Reading database ... 19023 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking quickclip (from .../quickclip_0.4.4-1_all.deb) ...
/var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/preinst: line 19: cannot create /root/.quickclip/parent_files.xml: nonexistent directory
chmod: /root/.quickclip/parent_files.xml: No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/quickclip_0.4.4-1_all.deb (--unpack):
 subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/quickclip_0.4.4-1_all.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
pocketpenguin:/home/user/MyDocs#
Whoa, $HOME is being interpreted as /root/ instead of /home/user/. I'm no bash expect, but something isn't right there...

I'll look into it.
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