On November 11, 2023, at 8:51 PM, Thomas George <debianlist@mailfence.com> wrote:
>I downloaded the google-chrome deb file to /opt/
>used dpkg to install the program.
Use sudo apt install ./filename.deb you may need to run sudo apt update first.
>
>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 account did you add the sbin's too? The Root account should already have sbin and it is the only account that should.
If you used su then you need to run either su -l or su -L to switch user to root with a login shell. I recommend disabling root login and using sudo.
>> 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.
>>