what happened with root

[nl101]

Hello users and roots,

I have a question about root. I've been a debian user since potato and have always run things like apt as root. In the lastest few distributions i've been installing and using sudo as a workaround in root in order to get things done.
I'd rather not have sudo on my system.
Maybe i have not fully kept up with the release notes or something, but i can't figure out why this happens. Whenever i run something as root it does not seem to have the library acces that normal users have, it does not seem to have a correct setup to run apt-get or many applications that are meant to be run as root have problems with either time info or libraries or path access or locale info. When i use sudo as root everything is fine.
Can someone explain what is going on?

Thanks

[Hallvor]

You need to use su - for root to add the user's environment variables and configurations, like this:

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$ su -

[sunrat]

the apt and apt-get commands are both in /usr/bin/ so should not need to have the environment switched to root's with "su -" . Show this command as user to make sure /usr/bin/ is in your path:

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echo $PATH

What do you see when you run by itself?:

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su -

Also if one chooses to use sudo during installation and doesn't create a root account, you can add it later by just setting a root password:

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sudo passwd root