Debian 10, Buster, is here. What did you do to my $PATH!!! Debian Base Install

Well for me, I installed minimally as best I could. No desktop. Yes SSH. I did create a regular user.

Let's get things rolling. Since I do not have a sudo user yet, I will log in with my regular user and become root.

$ su

Most of us know we'll need the root password next, but for those that don't...

First things first, the system does work. But, I do not like the default upon install $PATH env variable.

To fix the /sbin & /usr/sbin issues I added the line to my /etc/environment file:

PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin"

I was lazy, I rebooted.

Again with the becoming root.

$ su

Then I added my regular user to the sudo group with:

# usermod -aG sudo myusername

I also set an internally routeable static IPV4 address in my /etc/network/interfaces file:

source /etc/network/interfaces.d/*

auto lo

iface lo inet loopback

allow-hotplug enp1s0

iface enp1s0 inet static

address 10.0.0.100

broadcast 10.255.255.255

netmask 255.0.0.0

gateway 10.0.0.1

Systemd replaced the more or less awful resolv.conf
DNS Server information is now contained in the /etc/systemd/resolved.conf file:

[Resolve]
DNS=1.1.1.1 1.0.0.1 8.8.8.8 8.8.4.4

Then I restarted the network.

# systemctl restart networking

Lastly, I installed vim-- because I am not a masochist.

# apt install openssh-server sudo vim
# systemctl enable ssh

And for whatever reason you find acceptable, this sets your hostname well enough.

# hostnamectl set-hostname myhostname

It is likely I will use this as my Debian "base" install going forward.

And just for funsies, ipconfig is deprecated.

ip a