Lee Winter <lee.j.i.win...@gmail.com> writes: > [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 strong recommendation for using visudo, which no > longer exists.
visudo is included in the sudo package. I'd expect you have /usr/sbin/visudo if you have /etc/sudoers.d but don't really know. > [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. apt-file search visudo finds visudo in package sudo. You can also use https://www.debian.org/distrib/packages to search for contents of packages. > url = > "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. Looks like the package in question is lintian. > [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? It seems to me if you intend to build packages from source, you need to unpack the source package first and that's done via tar Jxvf package.tar.xz or you can also dpkg-source -x package.dsc. apt source is convenient in that it does the downloading and unpacking for you by default. I suppose you could configure apt to look on the DVD drive first for your source packages. Then you'd only need to make sure the correct DVD is in the drive and apt source would copy and unpack the source package from there.
