On Saturday 18 April 2020 10:40:44 am Michael Howard via trinity-users wrote:
> On 18/04/2020 16:33, Thierry de Coulon wrote:
> > On Saturday 18 April 2020 17.25:57 Michael Howard via trinity-users wrote:
> >> Is there a simple way to install TDE without sudo these days or do I
> >> need to build it all myself to avoid sudo?
> >
> > I use TDE on Debian and OpenSuSE, and I have never installed sudo. As far
> > as I remember it worked on Ubuntu as well without sudo (as soon as I had
> > told Ubuntu not to use sudo as well). What's your distribution?
> >
> > Thierry
>
> I'm using Devuan (armhf). sudo and sudo-trinity don't seem to 'hold'.
>
> Need to do some more digging I guess. It might be my system (Toshiba
> AC100) which has had some troubles of late.

Can you not just open a root console?

michael@local [~]# su -
Password:
root@local [~]#

Or maybe I'm just missing what you're trying to achieve?