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by AM » Fri, 12 Feb 1999 04:00:00

Hi all,
I have a cobalt box running Linux. However when I type commands like man
or gcc , the system says"command not found". Does this mean there
programs ae not installed? How do I know what programs are installed and
what commands I can run? Where do I install such programs such that I can
access them from every directory just like the case witl ls and cd
commands?

Thanks
Ayman Elsaedi

by **Colin Smit** » Fri, 12 Feb 1999 04:00:00

> Hi all,
> I have a cobalt box running Linux. However when I type commands like man
> or gcc , the system says"command not found". Does this mean there
> programs ae not installed? How do I know what programs are installed and

Yup, man isn't there or isn't in your path.

Quote:
> what commands I can run? Where do I install such programs such that I can
> access them from every directory just like the case witl ls and cd
> commands?

> Thanks
> Ayman Elsaedi

I thought the point of the cobalt boxes was to provide a very limited,
specific set of services to make sysadmin of them very easy, so basically
nothing but the essentials get installed.

by **Markus Schut** » Fri, 12 Feb 1999 04:00:00

> Hi all,
> I have a cobalt box running Linux. However when I type commands like man
> or gcc , the system says"command not found".

Looks like your path isn't set accurately.
Type: echo $PATH
and look if it contains something like
/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin (the ':' separates the dir names).
Or man and gcc are either not in some "default" directory, or not
installed.
Usually man and gcc are found in /usr/bin. Have a look there:
Type: ls -l /usr/bin/m*
ls -l /usr/bin/g*
you should get a list of files, at least one being man (resp. gcc).

If they are installed, then you'll have to worry about ld-linux.so and
shares libs.

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