Re: sudo inconsistencies in download pages

On Tue, Nov 3, 2020 at 11:07 AM Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> wrote:
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> On Tue, Nov 3, 2020 at 10:05 AM Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> wrote:
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>> On Mon, Nov 2, 2020 at 3:19 PM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
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>> > 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.
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>> > 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.
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>> I've done this.
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>> 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.
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> 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.

That would be equally important on all platforms though. We're never
going to cover every case...

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