On Monday 16 January 2006 10:18 am, Don wrote: > Ok so I had issues with my Debian system and got myself into a bind. > Reloaded from woody CD's and ended up with mouse issues I could not fix. > Threw in the towel and reloaded once again. Mouse works fine but now I > have a problem in APT. When attempting to upgrade to the latest versions > of loaded packages (heading to Sarge then to Kernel update) I get the > following: > > Preconfiguring packages ... > > Info: dictionaries-common/default-ispell is already set to > > [american (American English)]. Preserving it. > > Info: dictionaries-common/default-wordlist is already set to > > [american (American English)]. Preserving it. > > dpkg: `ldconfig' not found on PATH. > > dpkg: `start-stop-daemon' not found on PATH. > > dpkg: `install-info' not found on PATH. > > dpkg: `update-rc.d' not found on PATH. > > dpkg: 4 expected program(s) not found on PATH. > > NB: root's PATH should usually contain /usr/local/sbin, /usr/sbin and > /sbin. > > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2) > > > > However when I check the Root .profile I have the following entry for my > Path: > > PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin/ >X 11 > > export PATH > > This contains everything that apt-get is stating should be there. Now > what? > > > > Don
Did a google search (I know - I should have done that first) and found a reference to this exact problem Opened a root terminal and simply entered the path even though it was there originally and it worked. Not sure WHY it worked, but it did. Don -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]