On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 05:27:41PM +0000, Michael Fothergill wrote: > > I tried to run dkpg. >
It's dpkg, not dkpg > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc$ dkpg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 > bash: dkpg-reconfigure: command not found > > As you see it didn't work. So I tried using whereis > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc$ whereis dkpg > dkpg: > > Neither did that. > > I thought, well it must be somewhere so I looked in /etc and typed > > ls -l > > It listed a whole of files including apt and well known files like emacs > > In the list I saw > > drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2006-10-17 14:54 dpkg > > But if you type in > > ls -l dkpg you get > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc$ pwd > /etc > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc$ ls -l dkpg > ls: dkpg: No such file or directory > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc$ ls -la dkpg > ls: dkpg: No such file or directory > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc$ > > It's as if it is there but it cannot be seen. Is this some kind of file > permission problem? Or is my OS not feeling well today....? > > If you try to run dkpg i.e. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc$ /etc/dkpg > bash: /etc/dkpg: No such file or directory > > > it doesn't see it. > > Being root doesn't help either. > > spc2-burn3-0-0-cust329:/etc# /etc/dkpg > bash: /etc/dkpg: No such file or directory > spc2-burn3-0-0-cust329:/etc# ls -l dkpg > ls: dkpg: No such file or directory > spc2-burn3-0-0-cust329:/etc# > > Suggestions welcome. > > I hope this is a better posting this time. > > Regards > > Michael Fothergill > > _________________________________________________________________ > Be the first to hear what's new at MSN - sign up to our free newsletters! > http://www.msn.co.uk/newsletters > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- David Jardine "Running Debian GNU/Linux and loving every minute of it." -L. von Sacher-M.(1835-1895) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
