<p>Knowing my friend as I do, I'm leaning towards this as the root cause. Another ID10t error.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Jul 25, 2011 10:19 AM, "Tim Watts" <<a href="mailto:tim@cliftonfarm.org">tim@cliftonfarm.org</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution">> On Sun, 2011-07-24 at 22:50 -0400, Jim Kinney wrote:<br>
>> A friend who is a very green Linux user installed Ubuntu (latest<br>>> whatever version) and went to install adobe flash. It required some<br>>> command line-fu (which he didn't have) so he called me.<br>
>> <br>>> -> I'm not an ubuntu person <-<br>>> <br>>> So I was trying to find out what file type he was trying to install so<br>>> I asked hi to open a terminal (he was in the normal X session) and run<br>
>> ls and tell me the name of the file he downloaded.<br>>> <br>>> It errored with "no command or file by than name". So I had him do a<br>>> "pwd". Same error. Ditto on "echo $PATH"<br>
>> <br>> <br>> That sounds like an error msg from window's cmd not bash. Given the iffy<br>> communication quality of the conversation, if I had to bet, my money<br>> goes to: He wasn't in a shell at all.<br>
> <br>> <br>>> W T F !!!!!<br>>> <br>>> the command he _needed_ to run was sudo apt-get flash..... but he<br>>> couldn't recall if it was saved in the Downloads directory or the home<br>
>> directory. So he tried to cd and it failed.<br>>> <br>>> Unfortunately, we were talking over the cell phones while I was in a<br>>> busy and loud store so literally spelling out each letter of a working<br>
>> PATH "alpha bravo charlie" style was not going to happen.<br>>> <br>>> Now I have been pretty harsh on messed up distro stupids in the past<br>>> but I can't fathom how an install could complete and leave no working<br>
>> path variables set.<br>>> <br>>> Any ideas how during an install (that appeared to conclude correctly)<br>>> Ubuntu could have left off PATH? More importantly, ideas on how to NOT<br>>> recreate this?<br>
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