deb-get unable to find du-dust and fastfetch about deb-get HOT 2 CLOSED

I cannot replicate this on Debian 12: fresh install of current release per Readme (not even the latest head with all the fixes, although that reinstalled them fine as well) on a fresh VM and all is as expected.

Wait - I think I see your problem!

root@victus:~# deb-get install fastfetch

DO NOT EVER run deb-get as root or with sudo!

You need to set up a github PAT in a normal user's environment and run deb-get as a normal user. It will seek elevated privileges when needed. Running with sudo or as root has been known to break things badly plus root/sudo will not generally have the needed ENV for github. You might want to copy /etc/deb-get/installed and /etc/deb-get/aptrepos somewhere if they are OK and clean out the cache (deb-get clean but also check there are no background jobs and remove any remaining files in /var/cache/deb-get/)

I'm closing this issue but feel free to continue discussing here if you continue having problems and I'll try and help.

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Hi @philclifford
Thank you for educating me on this. I was under the impression that like any other package manager, this too should be run as root.

Following your instructions, I deleted the cache as well as ran deb-get clean followed by an update and upgrade to bring it to version 0.4.1-1

However, I still am unable to install fastfetch. Below is the output :

swh@victus:~$ deb-get install fastfetch
  [!] ERROR! fastfetch is not a supported application.
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