why am I having to use sudo in root account?

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I just installed antix on an existing partition, 1. I could not formate root, not format the second partition where /home would be then install, it failed, as I already have /home on it, I did not see a just mount /home no format, so I put /home on root side. now I am in root switching home to the second partition,

root@antix123:~# blkid
bash: blkid: command not found

and

root@antix123:~# userdel -r userx
bash: userdel: command not found
root@antix123:~# su
root@antix123:~# sudo userdel -r userx
userdel: /var/mail/userx not owned by userx, not removing

It looks like your root is not root? because I could not get the UUID by using blkid I used the old way instead /dev/sda2 /home I have not gotten any further yet, because I just felt the need t post this before proceeding with moving /home to the second partition that it should have been easily able to just mount it without needing to format it first.

ver 17? looks like it still needs a little more polishing??

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Since I cannot reproduce any of your errors, either you have a bad iso that installed or a bad instillation.

You didn’t say which version of antiX.

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It is the very latest and greatest, I’ll have to go back to the sight and look hold on, antiX-17.3.1_x64-full.iso I also ran into issues during the initial upgrading, I had it switch repos to testing during install, and

dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/apulse_0.1.12-2_amd64.deb (--unpac$
 trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/apulse/libpulse-simple.so.0', which is al$
 Errors were encountered while processing:
  /var/cache/apt/archives/apulse_0.1.12-2_amd64.deb
  E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

then trying to open geany to put that in to it for safe keeping, It would not even open, so I used nano instead, then rebooted, now login after entering name and passwd took an exceptional long time to get past the login screen, a good 5 to 10 second or more, I didn’t count it off, before letting me in, and I had to re-establish the wifi then control center icons are no longer there. I am going to run update and upgrade again to see what happens. (using the command line)

$ sudo apt update
Hit:2 http://mirrors.rit.edu/mxlinux/mx-packages/antix/testing testing InRelease
Hit:3 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian stretch-updates InRelease                          
Hit:1 http://security-cdn.debian.org testing/updates InRelease                           
Hit:4 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian testing InRelease                                  
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.              
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
	LANGUAGE = (unset),
	LC_ALL = (unset),
	LANG = "en_US.UTF-8"
    are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
67 packages can be upgraded. Run 'apt list --upgradable' to see them.

I donno is that a “bad” install?
is that the proper repo addresses, and sub dir or whatever they are called.
Hit:2 http://mirrors.rit.edu/mxlinux/mx-packages/antix/testing testing InRelease

I am going to do a quick re-install and see if I get the same results hold on….

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I would not use testing, stick to stretch/stable

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and what is it there for then, is it more dangerous then using Slackware current?

I’m currently upgrading a fresh install. btw.

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As it say in the installer option – for experts.

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well it is not like I have not used Debian before, and how does one become an expert, by staying tied it his or hers mothers apron strings or cutting them and learning how to fly on ones own? even if it takes a little help from others.

Unpacking winff-doc (1.5.5-5) over (1.5.5-1) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /tmp/apt-dpkg-install-Y7D35G/202-apulse_0.1.12-2_amd64.deb
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/desktop-menu", line 243, in <module>
    locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, "")
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/locale.py", line 581, in setlocale
    return _setlocale(category, locale)
locale.Error: unsupported locale setting
Updating Slim

Python is having issues with locales

userx@antix1:~
$ su
Password: 
root@antix1:/home/userx# env | grep LANG
LANG=en_US.UTF-8

and I know it is not normal for it to pause for any amount of time to login a su which it took forver.

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Since testing is as it says ‘testing’ sometimes things get added or removed that ‘break’ an install.

Anyhow, does apt-get -f install show anything useful?

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I’m updating locale right now, I’ll run that next, thanks.

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