Re: PATH question

[Thomas George <debianlist@mailfence.com>]

I downloaded the google-chrome deb file to /opt/

used dpkg to install the program.

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, 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.