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Best error message ever

“The program ‘apt-get’ is not currently installed. You can install it by typing ‘apt-get install apt’”

Comments

The 27th Comrade on 2007-09-29 14:04:00:

The keyboard was not detected. Press F1 ...

John on 2007-10-09 00:40:00:

“Error Message Error” would be the error, circa 1983, running WordStar on a PC with single floppy disc if you inserted the wrong floppy when WordStar prompted you for the disc which contained the error msg file.

David R. MacIver on 2007-10-09 10:40:00:

But what would happen if there were a display problem as well? There might have been an “Error message error” error.