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Beginners Questions • Re: [Software] Very few programs opening - consistent error message

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Apologies, it's been a hectic week for me.

It gave me "bash: sol: command not found"
Addendum: Also give

Code:

$ echo $PATH
please.
It gave me

Code:

/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin
It's worth noting that after Tuesday (UTC+13) I won't have access to my setup for at least two weeks as I'm moving cities.
No worries. Hope you get settled in OK.

Well, the first experiment didn't work. I would have expected sol to launch when you are actually in its directory. Probably because it's not a user directory and the command is still looking in user paths, which seem to be wrong.....

Code:

$ echo $PATH/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games
Is the output I get, which obviously contains the information that is missing in yours: where to find games.

Somehow your environmental variables have got messed up, or at least the path variable.

https://wiki.debian.org/EnvironmentVariables

These are defined in system files and user files. The user can override the system defaults. Hopefully it's just something you have done as a user that has caused this. Have a look at the link above and see if you have made any changes described there. Does anything look familiar?

The ~/.profile file would be an obvious place to look.

Code:

$ cat ~/.profile

Statistics: Posted by FreewheelinFrank — 2025-01-23 06:55



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