locmaint --sys: check that aptitude is on PATH

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/bin/locmaint b/bin/locmaint
index 98aa980c..7c7669d3 100755
--- a/bin/locmaint
+++ b/bin/locmaint
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ use Local::Interactive qw(interactive_ensure_subroutine
                         );
 use Local::MrRepo;
 use Local::ScriptStatus;
-use Local::Util qw(as_root);
+use Local::Util qw(as_root executable_find);
 use Scalar::Util qw(looks_like_number);
 use Sys::Hostname;
 
@@ -447,6 +447,7 @@ sub do_workstation_duplicity {
 
 sub do_sysmaint {
     return unless $can_root;
+    executable_find "aptitude";
 
     # could also check uptime here, as old sysmaint did when run on
     # athena -- idea was that if uptime was unexpectedly low then I