I fixed the problem with using this command: export PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 1:36 AM, Brian Lavender <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 12:53:39AM -0800, Jeff Newmiller wrote: > > Jason Snyder wrote: > > > I just upgraded to linux 10.4 from linux 9.10 and am having problems > > > with running programs and looking at directories in the terminal. > > > > > > For instance the command ls should give me all the contents of the > > > directory that I am in. However, this is what I get when I enter ls: > > > > > > snyde...@snyderjm-laptop:/$ ls > > > Command 'ls' is available in '/bin/ls' > > > The command could not be located because '/bin' is not included in the > > > PATH environment variable. > > > ls: command not found > > ugh. That is enough to give you grief, especially if you have a project > you are working on. I usually wait until the end of the semester (or > quarter) to do an upgrade, for that specific reason. I seem to often do > wierd tweaks that will send an upgrade in odd directions. > > > > > > > > > > Can you please help me resolve this issue ASAP so that I can start > > > working with programs that are on my desktop and also on my external > > > hard drives from within the terminal? These include many fortran > > > based programs. > > > > > Looks to me like you have NOT upgraded to 10.4... that is, the upgrade > > did not complete successfully. > > > > Unfortunately, there are enough ways for an upgrade to break that this > > may not be resolvable via the mailing list. A clean OS reinstall is > > often the simplest way to fix it (having /home on a separate filesystem > > from / makes this relatively painless, but if you followed a default > > install then you probably have a single filesystem). You did back up > > your data before upgrading, right? ;) > > Or, in a pinch, use the Ubuntu USB thumb drive. When spell check didn't > work because I deleted the spell check program (later reinstalled it > when I figured out it was missing), I was able to boot from the Ubuntu > thumb drive, open my document on my hard drive, spell check it, and then > save it right back to my local hard drive, or copy it somewhere else. > > brian > -- > Brian Lavender > http://www.brie.com/brian/ > > "Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to > show their absence!" > > Professor Edsger Dijkstra > 1972 Turing award recipient > _______________________________________________ > vox-tech mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech >
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