Hi, 2012/8/20 <r...@aarden.us>: > I just installed Debian. If I issue: > ls -alR > I get output. Some things work. > > If I issue: > fdisk > or > fdisk -l > I get 'command not found'. > What might I be doing wrong? That's a common issue when starting with Debian (not sure with other distributions) : /sbin and /usr/sbin directories are not in the user path.
You can use whereis command to find where a command is located : $ whereis fdisk fdisk: /sbin/fdisk /usr/share/man/man8/fdisk.8.gz Anyway, a normal user can't use fdisk, so try login as root, or "su - root" in a terminal. If you want your user to be able to access easily /sbin and /usr/sbin directories, add this line in the .bashrc file in the home directory of your user : export PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin" By the way, /usr/game isn't either in the path. Sebastien -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/can64bfag3xwucyyfz+zfygkevt+cdraa8oloszo4y9nr7zd...@mail.gmail.com
