[git-users] Command not found
Hi everyone, I've installed git using 'apt-get install git' - and ran fine. However - it doesnt seem to work. If I do a whereis git it returns nothing. And if I do a dpkg -s git I get this: Package: git Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: utils Installed-Size: 60 Maintainer: Ian Beckwith i...@erislabs.net Architecture: all Source: gnuit Version: 4.9.4-1 Depends: gnuit Description: transitional dummy package which can be safely removed This is a transitional dummy package to pull in the renamed gnuit package. It can be safely removed. That doesnt sound good does it - ? What have I done / Or should I do to fix it? Cheers, Gareth -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Git for human beings group. To post to this group, send email to git-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to git-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/git-users?hl=en.
Re: [git-users] Command not found
On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 5:10 PM, Gareth gareth.b.fos...@gmail.com wrote: I've installed git using 'apt-get install git' - and ran fine. However - it doesnt seem to work. If I do a whereis git it returns nothing. Wow, in all my years of using Unix and Linux I've never heard of whereis! Try which git. FWIW, on my Ubuntu 10.10 system whereis git only returns the git.1 man page. -Brett. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Git for human beings group. To post to this group, send email to git-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to git-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/git-users?hl=en.
[git-users] Re: Command not found
On Nov 5, 12:10 am, Gareth gareth.b.fos...@gmail.com wrote: I've installed git using 'apt-get install git' - and ran fine. However - it doesnt seem to work. If I do a whereis git it returns nothing. And if I do a dpkg -s git I get this: Package: git Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: utils Installed-Size: 60 Maintainer: Ian Beckwith i...@erislabs.net Architecture: all Source: gnuit Version: 4.9.4-1 Depends: gnuit Description: transitional dummy package which can be safely removed This is a transitional dummy package to pull in the renamed gnuit package. It can be safely removed. That doesnt sound good does it - ? What have I done / Or should I do to fix it? This is a question about Ubuntu, not Git. For some reason you did not do a couple of obvious things. First, search the package database. Typing pakages.ubuntu.com/git in the browser's address bar and hitting the Enter key brings a list of packages named git from which it's clear that your installed package is not the right one, and the one you're looking for acquired the name git only in Maverick. Next, simply doing $ aptitude search git on my Debian system brings a list of some 20 packages, from which it's easy to discern packages related to Git VCS; on my system it's git- core and friends. The same can be done in the search form on http://packages.ubuntu.com/ which is able to search the package database both by package names and by contents of the packages. Again, no problems finding Git. And last, if you installed a package named git and it does not seem to provide the required binary, do $ dpkg -L git | grep /bin/ to find all user-reachable executable files installed by that package. Bottom line: from your situation I assume you're using Karmic, and for it, the package providing Git VCS can be found using [1], which states that the package is named git-core. Note that you also might want to install packages git-gui and gitk to get its standard GUI front-ends at your disposal. 1. http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?searchon=contentskeywords=gitmode=exactfilenamesuite=karmicarch=i386 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Git for human beings group. To post to this group, send email to git-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to git-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/git-users?hl=en.
Re: [git-users] Command not found
Hello Gareth, apt-get install git-core On Thu, 4 Nov 2010 14:10:55 -0700 (PDT) Gareth gareth.b.fos...@gmail.com wrote: GHi everyone, G GI've installed git using 'apt-get install git' - and ran fine. However G- it doesnt seem to work. If I do a whereis git it returns nothing. GAnd if I do a dpkg -s git I get this: G GPackage: git GStatus: install ok installed GPriority: optional GSection: utils GInstalled-Size: 60 GMaintainer: Ian Beckwith i...@erislabs.net GArchitecture: all GSource: gnuit GVersion: 4.9.4-1 GDepends: gnuit GDescription: transitional dummy package which can be safely removed G This is a transitional dummy package to pull in the renamed G gnuit package. It can be safely removed. G GThat doesnt sound good does it - ? What have I done / Or should I do Gto fix it? G GCheers, GGareth G -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Git for human beings group. To post to this group, send email to git-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to git-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/git-users?hl=en.
