Re: sudo inconsistencies in download pages

On Tue, Nov 3, 2020 at 10:05 AM Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 2, 2020 at 3:19 PM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> >
> > Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> writes:
> > > For the "most likely to work following a standard OS install" option, I
> > > think we probably should add sudo for CentOS/RHEL 7+, and remove if
> from
> > > the Debian 9/10 instructions.
> >
> > My vote is to include sudo as a reminder that "this step needs root
> > privilege". If you don't have sudo, you have to implement that some
> > other way, but you still need to do something.
>
> I've done this.
>
> The biggest downside is you can't copy/paste it into a system without
> sudo. I guess a more advanced version could have a checkbox to turn
> on/off the sudo part, but I doubt it's worth going *that* far.
>

Whilst I don't object to the change, I do think it's important to note that
the more likely issue is not that sudo isn't on the system, but that it's
not configured.

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