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

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said Mike Bird via tde-users:
| 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.

So I've been using atypical Linux since 1998? 
-- 
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