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[Anders Kaseorg <andersk@xxxxxxx>]

Ah: that’s probably related to this feature mentioned in
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/NEWS.23.2 :

*** The new eshell built-in commands `su' and `sudo' support Tramp.
Thus, they change `default-directory' to reflect the new user id, and
let commands run under that user's permissions.  This works even when
`default-directory' is already remote.  Calling the external commands
is possible via `*su' or `*sudo', respectively.

The path that it uses is controlled by the tramp-remote-path variable; see http://www.gnu.org/software/tramp/#Remote-Programs .  Its default value is
  '(tramp-default-remote-path "/usr/sbin" "/usr/local/bin"
    "/local/bin" "/local/freeware/bin" "/local/gnu/bin"
    "/usr/freeware/bin" "/usr/pkg/bin" "/usr/contrib/bin")
where tramp-default-remote-path is `getconf PATH` = /bin:/usr/bin.  So /sbin is missing.

I suspect you can work around this either by changing your ‘apti’ alias
to use the real sudo (*sudo), or by adding /sbin or 'tramp-own-remote-
path to tramp-remote-path.

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