Hello Aaron, It looks like you are right, as my brother installed mandrake linux as mainly a desktop and internet platform, and he knew that I did not want to go deep into development.
I did a command ls -ls /bin and got my executable command list in alphabetical order in green and strings* should have been between sort* and stty* and it was not there. Regards, Michael Walters "Aaron J. Seigo" wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Wednesday 01 January 2003 08:01, Michael Walters wrote: > > Hello Clug talk, > > > > I was going through the rute tutorial and tried out the command strings > > /bin/cp and the error message "bash : Strings : command not found." came > > up. a couple of other commands came up with similar messages. I am using > > mandrake linux 8.1. Could you please tell me what is happening and why? > > probably because those programs aren't installed, or aren't in your PATH. the > strings executable is part of binutils IIRC, so perhaps check to see if you > have that rpm installed (e.g. rpm -q binutils)... MDK may not have installed > that package (along with others) if you didn't select any of the development > packages or the console tools packages, since the programs in binutils are > primarily used for development. > > - -- > Aaron J. Seigo > GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 > > "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler" > - Albert Einstein > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQE+E5K81rcusafx20MRAs1hAKCCCfZxbZzAKAv3WAxoV276uaBw8QCgnOga > hZLqQS5lG7YKYMcyQuM96I0= > =aiYb > -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
