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'sudo aptitude' problem

as of recent, if I try 'sudo aptitude', packages fail to install with following error:

Code:

Preconfiguring packages ...

dpkg: warning: 'ldconfig' not found in PATH or not executable.

dpkg: warning: 'start-stop-daemon' not found in PATH or not executable.

dpkg: error: 2 expected programs not found in PATH or not executable.

Note: root's PATH should usually contain /usr/local/sbin, /usr/sbin and /sbin.

E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)

A package failed to install.  Trying to recover:

dpkg: warning: 'ldconfig' not found in PATH or not executable.

dpkg: warning: 'start-stop-daemon' not found in PATH or not executable.

dpkg: error: 2 expected programs not found in PATH or not executable.

Note: root's PATH should usually contain /usr/local/sbin, /usr/sbin and /sbin.

Press return to continue.

if I use 'su' and then aptitude, there is no error. what could it be?

Misconfigured sudo?

Try running something else with sudo and see if you get the same kind of PATH errors?

Your sudo PATH is messed up.

Take a look at /etc/sudoers make sure you have these lines:

Defaults env_reset
Defaults secure_path="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin"

for some reason, the second line was missing. it works now.
thanks.