On Sun, 18 Oct 2020, John Jason Jordan wrote:

Second, you might try switching to root instead of using sudo. I don't
fully understand why, but apparently there are some differences. To become
root you do 'sudo su.' One thing that I learned a long time ago is that
'su' means 'switch user,' not 'super user.'

I don't know whether ther ubuntus allow you to switch directly to root using
'su -' rather than 'sudo su', but I suggest you try adding the huphen to the
su command. This switches you to a login shell and some (many?) tools
require the access this allows.

Rich

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