so what you are saying is I should have used su -i and not just su.
also I downloaded the file for Bookworm, I did not use the one
from SID.
On Tue, 5 Sep 2023 19:47:00 +0000 "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> wrote:At this point, you are not root and so dpkg -i complains.Actually she is root (the # in the prompt, and the username@host at the beginning of the prompt, assuming she hasn't played with her prompts). What she does not have, apparently, is ldconfig or start-stop-daemon in her path, as dpkg diagnosed at the end of that message. This is likely due to gaining root privileges without setting the path correctly. E.g. gaining root privileges with "su" vs. "su -i". Sorry to nitpick, but I hope the OP is will read this and, I hope, learn from it.