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Setting up a new CentOS 7.4 machine. I installed vim using sudo yum install vim, and then I uninstalled vim-minimal with sudo yum remove vim-minimal. Now sudo has been uninstalled:

$ sudo
-bash: /usr/bin/sudo: No such file or directory

What happened? Is sudo really part of the vim-minimal package? How can I reinstall it, now that I don't have sudo anymore? I don't know the root password.

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sudo is not a part of vim-minimal however the dependency is linked between them. see here for more details.

https://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?292058-sudo-packages-requires-vim-minimal

after a little searching it seems you can use 

 pkexec yum install sudo    (sudo password will be required) ** edit,see bottom

to reinstall sudo; also, you could have used 

 rpm -e --no-deps vim-minimal

to remove vim-minimal without removing sudo also. Hope it helps. See you

edit : if you cant get access to the root password in any way, you can try..

hope it helps.

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  • ah, sorry, just saw that you dont know the root password ... cant you get it somehow? or ask the admin responsible to enter it for you?
    – Sean Davey
    Commented Mar 23, 2018 at 15:44

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