[SOLVED] Difference installing with sudo copared to su

LinG · 2017-07-28 11:36:07

I was wondering if there is a difference if you install applications in the following two ways (since I've been doing both, kind of at random...)

1.

su root
pacman -S *app*

2.

sudo pacman -S *app*

Last edited by LinG (2017-07-28 11:50:36)

graysky · 2017-07-28 11:37:19

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=sudo+or+su

LinG · 2017-07-28 11:41:57

Did that... I'm not asking the difference between su and sudo, I'm wondering if there is a difference in the installation process of applications, for example, the location where the application is installed. (I think the answer is no, but I just wanted to check to be sure)

Last edited by LinG (2017-07-28 11:44:49)

WorMzy · 2017-07-28 11:47:35

In this scenario, all pacman cares about is if it's running as root, it doesn't care how it's running as root. Why would it?

eschwartz · 2017-07-28 18:16:57

LinG wrote:

Did that... I'm not asking the difference between su and sudo, I'm wondering if there is a difference in the installation process of applications, for example, the location where the application is installed. (I think the answer is no, but I just wanted to check to be sure)

I suppose pacman could try examining the process tree to see what parent process started it, then change its behavior based on that. But why do you think someone might have coded that behavior?

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#1 2017-07-28 11:36:07

[SOLVED] Difference installing with sudo copared to su

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