Debian Buster: dpkg-reconfigure not found
Posted: Tue Sep 01, 2020 12:25 am
[PROBLEM]
On a fresh install of Debian 10 (Buster), I switched to root using "su" - but strangely, I couldn't execute "dpkg-reconfigure".
I then saw that all commands in /sbin/ couldn't be "found".
[SOLUTION]
Plain "su" doesn't provide the root-specific PATH variables...
Use "su -" instead of just "su". That's generally the better way:
Thanks to this forum thread.
On a fresh install of Debian 10 (Buster), I switched to root using "su" - but strangely, I couldn't execute "dpkg-reconfigure".
I then saw that all commands in /sbin/ couldn't be "found".
[SOLUTION]
Plain "su" doesn't provide the root-specific PATH variables...
Use "su -" instead of just "su". That's generally the better way:
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$ su -