On Sun, Nov 12, 2023 at 9:29 AM Thomas George <debianl...@mailfence.com>
wrote:
> As root I edited bashrc as found in root's home directory
> On 11/11/23 23:23, Timothy Butterworth wrote:
>
> On November 11, 2023, at 8:51 PM, Thomas George <debianl...@mailfence.com>
> <debianl...@mailfence.com> wrote:
>
> >I downloaded the google-chrome deb file to /opt/
> >used dpkg to install the program.
>
> Use sudo apt install ./filename.deb you may need to run sudo apt update
> first.
>
> >
> >initial attempt failed, two lib files missing.
> >added the sbin entries to path and tried again
> >missing files found on the dvd installation disk and google-chrome
> >successfully installed
> >On 11/11/23 13:22, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> >> On Sat, Nov 11, 2023 at 01:03:45PM -0500, Thomas George wrote:
> >>> In a newly installed bookworm I edited PATH to
> >>> /usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin
>
> What account did you add the sbin's too? The Root account should already
> have sbin and it is the only account that should.
>
> If you used su then you need to run either su -l or su -L to switch user
> to root with a login shell. I recommend disabling root login and using
> sudo.
>
> -, -l, --login
Start the shell as a login shell with an environment similar to a
real login:
• clears all the environment variables except TERM and
variables specified by --whitelist-environment
• initializes the environment variables HOME, SHELL, USER,
LOGNAME, and PATH
• changes to the target user’s home directory
• sets argv[0] of the shell to '-' in order to make the shell a
login shell
> >> What, exactly, did you edit?
> >>
> >>> in order to
> >>> install google-chrome.
> >> Now that makes no sense... unless you ran into the buster su issue.
> >>
> >> Please see <https://wiki.debian.org/NewInBuster#Changes>
> <https://wiki.debian.org/NewInBuster#Changes>;.
> >>
> >>> This worked but the installed PATH had two other
> >>> entries, something about games?
> >> /usr/local/games and /usr/games
> >>
> >>> I failed to save and did not take note of all the installed PATH
> entries.
> >>>
> >>> I have no sound with bookworm. Could these other entries be the
> problem?
> >> I sincerely doubt it.
> >>
>
>
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