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A command in $PATH but can't run and "ln" link not work on Debian 12
The computer system is Debian 12. As needed to update my LaTeX, I tried the command sudo tlmgr update --all, which returned sudo: tlmgr: command not found. But which tlmgr returned /usr/local/texlive/...
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My system can't find command, though I can find it manually [duplicate]
When I had enter any command (grub, parted, gparted, fdisk) my system cannot find it, although it is present on a disk, because the distribution has installed and works.
But when I invoke any command, ...
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'which' is unable to find command even though it is definitely installed
I have recently installed the cryptsetup. I've double checked with sudo apt-get install cryptsetup.
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
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Why does Debian set a different PATH for root compared to other users? Why aren't `sbin` directories included for all users? [duplicate]
On a fresh install of Debian 11 "Bullseye" using the net installer, intended to be used as a server, root has the following PATH:
root@debian:~# echo $PATH | tr : '\n'
/usr/local/sbin
/usr/...
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ufw "command not found"- but as the root user!
My Debian 11 VPS is running now for about 2 weeks- and today I just wanted to analyse, why my traffic is ~70GiB (counted by bashtop). So somewhere in the net I read about nethogs, that this could help....
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doas doesn't run a /usr/sbin binary
I'm using Debian/GNU/Linux Unstable,
and I was trying doas for the first time today, with the following simple config file:
$ doas cat /etc/doas.conf
permit persist alx as root
While it worked for ...
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Why not prepend user directory to PATH?
For user scripts, the usual advice is to append their directory to $PATH in one's .profile:
PATH="$PATH:$HOME/.myscripts" # or .bin or whatever
Apparently that is safer than prepending it: ...
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System-wide ${PATH} for non-login shells (in Debian)
I saw that similar questions were already asked, but I think the problem still exists.
I did a standard thing, added a software to the /opt/ directory. Say, Go. /opt/go is the main directory and /opt/...
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bash: shutdown: command not found
I installed the latest version of Debian (netinstall).
I have the problem, that the terminal does not know commands like shutdown, reboot, and so on.
When I do whereis shutdown it tells me it is in /...
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Debian 10: Setting PATH variable inside .profile does not work
I'm currently running Debian 10 Xfce and I would like to update my PATH variable to include /opt/bin and ~/.local/bin. As per these - 1 2 answers, I put the following lines in my ~/.profile file:
if [ ...
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How do I create a cron to find and delete directories that are 90 days old but ignore 2 sub-directories?
What I have
I have a cron currently setup that finds and deletes directories & files that are 90 days old
What I need
I would like the crontab to ignore two directories when deleting directories &...
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LD_LIBRARY_PATH in Debian
I just followed the advice here:
How to update glibc to 2.14 in CentOS 6.5
as an Android related program has been complaining about glibc-2.29
Everything seemed to compile and now in the /opt ...
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$PATH in a shell made by xterm not including a command location, but shell still able to execute it
I am setting up a Debian 10 with fluxbox window manager. One of the components I need is miniconda, I've installed everything from the initial bash (no desktop) and everything works fine. Miniconda ...
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Correcting PATH after dist upgrade?
After a dist upgrade (Debian 9 to Debian 10) some things stopped working.
For example, iwconfig, losetup, ifconfig, poweroff, pm-hibernate.
These commands work if I type the full path like /sbin/...
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Mount Davfs Cannot evaluate path of mount point
I'm trying to mount a webdav on my debian distribution, but I have an error when I try to do so.
The error is :
~# mount /mnt/dav
>/sbin/mount.davfs: can't evaluate path of mount point (null)
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Broken my Debian install: 'sh' not found in PATH
I'm running a custom build of Debian buster/sid. I have broken a lot of things seemingly by mistakenly running apt-get dist-upgrade (I think that's what did it). So the desktop manager\desktop ...
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How to set a persistent $PATH variable for single or all users [duplicate]
This question has been asked before online but with conflicting answers so I am looking for clarification.
What is the best way to add $PATH variables (below) in debian so that they are persitent for ...
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How can i permanently change the PATH var of newly created user? [closed]
I assume this question has be asked many times.I just can't manage to change the PATH var permanently. This is what I do:
nano ~/.profile
export PATH=$PATH:/my/additional/path
save changes
I even ...
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$HOME/bin dir is not on the $PATH
In my ~/.profile I have a last block which should load my personal bin/ directory like this:
# set PATH so it includes user's private bin if it exists
if [ -d "$HOME/bin" ] ; then
PATH="$HOME/bin:...
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ctrl+x in vim text editor doesn't work as expected [closed]
I have Debian Jessie and vim terminal text editor. I try to autocomplete a file path in insert mode. When I type ctrl and x simultaneously no path completing is done but two chars are displayed:
^X
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Setting up datapath for a not-standard application (Quartus 13.0.1 on Debian 8.7.1)
I need to setup Quartus 13.0.1 on a Debian 8.7.1 system and I followed the guide at this wiki.
After installing I need to setup a proper path and the wiki suggests to add the following code to ~/....
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I have the latest version of hping3 installed, but Bash says "command not found"
I'm trying to use the hping3 tool on Debian GNU/Linux (Jessie), and it doesn't want to play nice. When I run apt-get install hping3, it tells me that it's at the latest version already. When I run ...
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Where does Debian 8.1 install adduser?
Code and outputs
apt-cache search adduser
adduser - add and remove users and groups
$ sudo apt-get install adduser
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state ...
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Running remote script via ssh command
I have a script on remote Debian server machine and I want to run a command by invoking:
ssh server "find.sh"
My find.sh script is in in:
/home/user/bin
First of all, I ran ssh server "echo $PATH" ...
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Bash cannot see PATH update
I am running Debian on a VM. I login to the GUI and go to Applications > Accessories > Terminal.
# echo shell: /bin/bash
I modified ENV_SUPATH, ENV_PATH inside of /etc/login.defs. I restarted ...
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What do you do when you try to sudo and root's PATH has gone kerblooey?
I've got a feeling something bad just happened to this machine.
faheem@bulldog:/usr/local/src/mercurial$ sudo dpkg -i
mercurial_3.0-1_amd64.deb mercurial-common_3.0-1_all.deb
dpkg: warning: '...
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Add $HOME/bin to PATH for a single user in Debian Wheezy with LXDE
In Ubuntu, if $HOME/bin exists, it will be automagically added to PATH, but this doesn't happen in Debian.
How do I permanently add it to PATH for a given user, but only for him, not for all users? I ...
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Debian Wheezy 7.1 - can't launch Skype or Firefox [duplicate]
I've installed Skype by using dkpg and when I try to run it, this is what I get -bash: /usr/bin/skype: No such file or directory. Which is very strange since ls -l | grep skype shows this:
-rwxr-xr-x ...
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Change PATH in Debian 7.1.0 for Java
I would like to change the PATH of my Debian 7.1.0 system to link to the Java version I want. If I enter in the terminal:
java -version
I get:
java version "1.6.0_27"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (...
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How to add a path to system $PATH for all users's non-login shell and login shell on debian
I installed some programs in /opt/my-program/bin, I wanted to add /opt/my-program/bin to system $PATH for all users's non-login shell and login shell. What should I do?
Changing /etc/environment is ...
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