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> wrote:
>I downloaded the google-chrome deb file to /opt/
>used dpkg to install the program.
Use sudoapt install ./filename.deb you may need to run sudoapt 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'stoo? The Root account should
already have sbinand it is the only account that should.
If you used suthen 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.
>> 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>;.
>>
>>> 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.
>>
