Re: Debian apt weirdness (was: Re: what would it take . . .)

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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
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