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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">On other forums I’ve seen users having issues and found it was because the install by default linked /bin/sh to dash rather than bash
though I’ve never seen a good explanation as to why.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">If he types “env” what does his PATH variable show?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">Just typing “export PATH=$PATH:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin” ought to get a lot of things going.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">However, from what I’ve heard Ubuntu likes to make you do sudo for almost everything administrative.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold">From:</span></font></b><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma"> ale-bounces@ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces@ale.org]
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">On Behalf Of </span></b>Jim Kinney<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b> Monday, July 25, 2011 7:56 AM<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b> <st1:PersonName w:st="on">Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts</st1:PersonName><br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b> Re: [ale] ubuntu install has no $PATH?</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Thanks to all for the ideas. I'm certain my friend didn't change shells :-) at least not deliberately. His linux-fu is pretty much 0.<br>
I recall something about a default shell change from bash to dash? Could this be related?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt">On Jul 24, 2011 11:56 PM, "The Don Lachlan" <<a href="http://ale-at-ale.org">ale-at-ale.org</a>@<a href="http://unpopularminds.org">unpopularminds.org</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution">
> On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 11:18:30PM -0400, David Tomaschik wrote:<br>
>> On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 10:50 PM, Jim Kinney <<a href="mailto:jim.kinney@gmail.com">jim.kinney@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> > Any ideas how during an install (that appeared to conclude correctly) Ubuntu<br>
>> > could have left off PATH? More importantly, ideas on how to NOT recreate<br>
>> > this?<br>
>> I cannot, for the life of me, figure out any way that PATH would not<br>
>> be set, unless the user had somehow modified it in a profile file.<br>
>> Also, 'cd' and 'ls' should work fine even without a path, as they are<br>
>> shell builtins (in bash at least). So is echo. Getting a "command<br>
>> not found" type error from echo, cd, or ls, would take quite a bit of<br>
>> special work -- like some stripped busybox shell with those commands<br>
>> missing.<br>
> <br>
> It's far more likely it's not bash at all. BTW, 'ls' is not a bash builtin.<br>
> <br>
> Perhaps he set his shell to dash or specifically opened a dash shell, which<br>
> then didn't inherit an environment and didn't have env files to read.<br>
> <br>
>> Can you get them to type "/bin/bash" to see if they get a better shell<br>
>> out of that?<br>
> <br>
> That is my first suggestion also. Check his login shell and what he clicked<br>
> on, because it surely wasn't bash and that could easily foul things up.<br>
> <br>
> -L<br>
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