On Thursday 18 July 2019 12:28:18 Richard Hobson wrote: > Curt wrote: > > Of course, if you have no network connectivity on the machine, this > > might prove to be a difficult maneuver. However, you could download > > the package from another machine with connectivity and transfer it > > via sneakernet to the machine with the realtek wifi dongle, where it > > might be installed like this (as root or with sudo): > > > > dpkg -i firmware-realtek_20190502-1_all.deb > > Thanks for the link. I've downloaded the package, transferred it to > the PC using a USB stick and run dpkg as above. > > I get two warnings followed by a related error. > > warning: 'ldconfig' not found in PATH or not executable > warning: 'start-stop-daemon' not found in PATH or not executable > error: 2 expected programs not found in PATH or not executable > > then a note about what root's path should usually contain > /usr/local/sbin, /usr/sbin and /sbin > > It's about ten years since I last used Linux and I can't even remember > how to check the PATH! However, I doubt there's anything wrong with it > in a new installation. > > Does it matter where I've put the .deb file? At the moment it's in the > Downloads directory of my userbname and I'm runnng dpkg from there as > root. > > R echo $PATH. And expect it to be different between yourself and sudo whoever.
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