[tde-users] Re: Debian apt weirdness (was: Re: what would it take . . .)

On Sun August 31 2025 16:37:56 dep via tde-users wrote:

Here's another one: Remember when, if you tried to execute a command that requires root privileges, the error would tell you that you needed to be root to do that? Now it's simply "command not found." I discovered this when I tried to run synaptic, figuring I'd get the usual password box. instead, I got command not found, so I did sudo apt install synaptic and was told I had the latest version installed.

In a typical linux setup, /usr/sbin and/or /sbin and/or /usr/local/sbin are on root's $PATH but not on the $PATH of regular users.

Contrariwise, root's $PATH usually doesn't have the .../game directories.

--Mike