On Jul 10, 2025, Lee Winter wrote: > Got a dell 5400 workstation configured fully (8 cores, 32gb RAM, 160gb > fast disk & 1.0tb slow disk) and I netinstalled debian Bookworm > 12.10.0 on it. I also got the 20 DVDs with 92.5gb of Source packages. > The machine seems OK, but I am finding some [problem]s. > > [A1] is that netinstall left /etc/sudoers missing and > /etc/sudoers.d/README empty -- there are no users at all. But that > README file contains a strongrecommendation for using visudo, which no > longer exists.
Did you create a root password during installation? If so, (I believe) the result is that the installer skips the 'sudo' package in general. Also, (/usr)/sbin/visudo would not be in your user's $PATH; you'd need to first 'su -'. > > [A2] is that visudo is missing even though lots of doc still insists that > it be should be used. I even looked for it in my SOURCE packages and with > apt install. But I found nothing. (/usr)/sbin/visudo is part of the 'sudo' package. While it is installed on this machine; I'm 95% sure I did that some time after initial installation. > https://blog.usro.net/2024/11/how-to-build-a-debian-package-from-source-a-step-by-step-guide > " > > [B] is that the doc in the url above wants to apt install some thing > called linti. But in reality there is no such thing. Probably best to use Debian's own packaging guide, if you want to make packages: https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/build.en.html That being said, the post you referenced is telling you to install 'lintian'; which does exist. > > [C] is that same doc in the url above wants to apt install source > <package_name>. So it wants to get a new copy of the source package. But > I already have a copy; i just need to know where to put it? Pretty much, where ever you want to use as your build directory. Though, I still don't quite understand why you're trying to (re-?) build a debian package, given your starting point of "where's visudo?". -- |_|O|_| |_|_|O| Github: https://github.com/dpurgert |O|O|O| PGP: DDAB 23FB 19FA 7D85 1CC1 E067 6D65 70E5 4CE7 2860
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