Hi! On Sat, 2020-05-09 at 18:10:48 +1200, Darren Hale wrote: > I have recently installed Debian Buster and found when invoking in > terminal su and using dpkg-reconfigure tzdata and dpkg -i that there > is error messages.
What error message? As is, this report does not really look actionable. > I have read all the notes around Debian Buster and tried su - and > other options and nothing works. I request that the dpkg work as it > did in Debian Stretch and previous be the default so that these > important system functions are restored such as dpkg -i when using su. > I have wasted a lot of time trying to fix this issue with no > resolution. My only guess, without more details, is that you might have stumbled over behavior change in su after util-linux took it over from the login package. See: $ zless /usr/share/doc/util-linux/NEWS.Debian.gz If that's the case, then I'd recommend installing apt-listchanges so that you can see these NEWS entries on upgrade, and also reading the Release Notes before such distribution upgrade: <https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/release-notes/ch-information.en.html#su-environment-variables> In any case this does not appear to be a problem with dpkg, as I'd assume we'd have heard of such thing way earlier. Thanks, Guillem