I fixed the problem through the use of this command: export PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin
Thanks, jason On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 12:53 AM, Jeff Newmiller <[email protected]>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 > > > > > > 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? ;) > > You might try catching the grub dialog right after reboot and picking > one of the earlier non-debug backup kernel/OS options as a way to get an > operational system to start from again. > > > Thanks, > > > > Jason > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > vox-tech mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech > > > > _______________________________________________ > vox-tech mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech >
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