Re: how to check whether everything is installed

1998-12-15 Thread Oliver Elphick
Birgit Kellner wrote: >The basic and (perhaps deceptively) simple question is: I cannot use >certain basic commands such as "make config", where bash keeps returning >"command not found". Like this?: $ bake config bash: bake: command not found If you get that for make, you need to install t

Re: how to check whether everything is installed

1998-12-14 Thread virtanen
On Mon, 14 Dec 1998, Birgit Kellner wrote: > Thanks a lot to everyone who has replied to this thread so far. I > managed to sort out some package conflicts with dselect, but they have > not resolved the basic problem. What's more, dselect has configured man, > to the effect that I cannot find manu

Re: how to check whether everything is installed

1998-12-14 Thread David Wright
Quoting Birgit Kellner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I thought that I had successfully installed Debian, but it so happens > that bash replies "command not found" to just about every second command > I type, including such basic things as "make config". Before I lose my > temper, erase everything and star

Re: how to check whether everything is installed

1998-12-14 Thread Birgit Kellner
Thanks a lot to everyone who has replied to this thread so far. I managed to sort out some package conflicts with dselect, but they have not resolved the basic problem. What's more, dselect has configured man, to the effect that I cannot find manual entries which I could access before ... The basi

Re: how to check whether everything is installed

1998-12-14 Thread Oliver Elphick
Birgit Kellner wrote: >(1) How can I check which packages are and which are not installed on my >system? dpkg -l >(2) In case a particular command is not recognized, how can I find out >what package is needed to make it work? 1. To look for in the list of all _installed_ files:

how to check whether everything is installed

1998-12-14 Thread Birgit Kellner
I thought that I had successfully installed Debian, but it so happens that bash replies "command not found" to just about every second command I type, including such basic things as "make config". Before I lose my temper, erase everything and start from scratch - (1) How can I check which package