Hi, I reassigned this bug to sudo since I noticed that
sudo apt-get install foo seems to fail also for other packages than 'ess'. One example is "sudo apt-get install sbcl" which fails because HOME is not set. Do you think this is 1) a bug in sudo default configuration 2) a bug in the packages that won't install without HOME or SHELL or 3) not a bug at all and "sudo apt-get install foo" is not supposed to work? Or perhaps 4) sudo should warn/ask about this at install/upgrade time? best regards, Timo Lindfors
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