Well, the encouraging replies from Derek M., Dan C., and Benjamin S. have turned my frown upside down! (thanks for tolerating my whiney tone yesterday)
Simply put, my PATH is really hosed up! /sbin nowhere to be found. No wonder I've been having so much trouble! But let me back up briefly and provide info that may be useful for troubleshooters: I got into the linux biz out of the need for a research software app called UltraScan, referred to as just <us> on the CLI. So, yeah, unfortunately I do not have much unix experience. But as the heart of MacOS X indicates, unix IS the foreseeable future of personal computer operating systems, and so I want and need to learn how to use it in some form. At least a working familiarity so that I can get work done. I'm actually excited about learning how to use it, just not when I can't even get a simple command to work :0) The writer of the 'us' software developed it for intel machines, so he has bent over backwards by helping configure it on my PPC machine, because there have been many unexpected hurdles to getting it working right. In fact, there is still a problem with how it displays graphs on the screen. Might require a recompile of X or something, I have been told. Anyway, after all the work he did on my machine (cross-country, via the net) it looks like a bunch of crap has piled up in my PATH so I'm looking for advice on how best to prune it. Maybe I'm doing something unintentionally to cause all the duplication? (see below) <echo $PATH> returns the following info -- (linebreaks chosen for clarity, I hope) /usr/local/us/bin:/usr/local/qt/bin:/usr/local/us/bin: /usr/local/us/bin:/usr/local/qt/bin:/usr/local/us/bin: /usr/local/us/bin:/usr/local/qt/bin:/usr/local/us/bin: /usr/local/us/bin:/usr/local/qt/bin:/usr/local/us/bin: /usr/local/us/bin:/usr/local/qt/bin:/usr/local/us/bin: /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/bin:/usr/games/bin: /usr/games:/opt/gnome/bin:/opt/ked2/bin:.:/opt/gnome/bin: /local/qmake/bin:/usr/local/tmake/bin:/local/qmake/bin: /usr/local/tmake/bin:/local/qmake/bin:/usr/local/tmake/bin: local/qmake/bin:/usr/local/tmake/bin:/local/qmake/bin: /usr/local/tmake/bin Clearly a horrible mess! I have been using KDE for desktop mgr, so I don't guess I need any gnome stuff, and I havent been using linux for games, so I don't think that needs to be there. (Although another linuxhead here was showing me BZFlag netplay, which was pretty cool, and I thought it might be fun to get that working as a learning experience!) I am using BASH shell. The command I was trying to run yesterday, cardmgr, was easily and quickly found with whereis and locate when logged in as a regular user. 'which' only worked as root, and 'find' took too long to bother with but it did work. cardmgr was found in /sbin/cardmgr. So from Dan Coutu's reply, it looks like my PATH should start off with, or at least include, /sbin, /usr/bin, /bin, and /usr/bin. And I do want to keep one copy of /usr/local/us/bin but that can/should go at the end, right? Can I just trash this whole path and re-write it? Thanks for all your kind and thorough advice! --Michael -- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Michael L. Bovee, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow University of Vermont Department of Biochemistry B403 Given Building Burlington, VT 05405-0068 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://biochem.uvm.edu Lab 802-656-0345 FAX 802-862-8229 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
