Hi, if you’re trying to build lemmy from scratch, on debian (not ubuntu), and you’re following this guide: https://join-lemmy.org/docs/en/administration/from_scratch.html

There are a few corrections I would like to point you.

Install those two things before following the guide:

apt install sudo

Of course, ‘sudo’ is not installed by default on Debian, so I guess it would be a good idea to install it.

sudo apt install build-essential

This will install the ‘cc’ compiler needed by Rust.

sudo apt install protobuf-c-compiler protobuf-compiler

This is needed to compile opentelemetry-proto.

  • RePop@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    I’m not confusing Debian, I use it. What Debian doesn’t come with is the user in the sudoer’s file. sudo is there, the user just isn’t part of it by default.

    I installed Debian 11 & 12 on live & non-live versions.

    • pascal@lemm.eeOPEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Since this isn’t Reddit, I decided to not insult your knowledge and investigate about why our opinions differ.

      I installed a couple of Debian recently and remember vividly that sudo wasn’t there.

      After reading the Debian wiki, it seems we’re both right: sudo is automatically installed only if you don’t give root a password.

      Source: https://wiki.debian.org/sudo/

      Thank you for making me learn something I didn’t know.

      • RePop@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        We are still at stake zero, I put a root password :P

        Edit: in fact, Debian doesn’t allow me to not, except on live version, which it forces me to puts me as a sudo user