On Thu, 28 Aug 2025, rob [ at ] echlin [ dot ] ca via linux wrote: > Do they expect you to use sudo to do those things, or actually log > into a different account with the extra permissions? sudo won't help if the commands aren't even in your search path, so i just added those directories to my search path in my .bashrc, which fixed things. just having to get used to these subtle differences between ubuntu and debian. the other gotcha was finding out that debian trixie did not come with a default deb sources file so i could install additional packages; learned about the "new" deb822 format for source files and added one for main. rday To unsubscribe send a blank message to linux+unsubscribe [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org To get help send a blank message to linux+help [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org To visit the archives: https://lists.linux-ottawa.org