Re: startx?

["Robert L. Harris" <nomad@rnd-consulting.com>]

{0}:dogbert:/home/nomad>ls -la /usr/X11R6/bin/startx
ls: /usr/X11R6/bin/startx: No such file or directory

And a "find / -name startx -print" doesn't find it 
either.



Thus spake Ben Collins (bcollins@debian.org):

> On Wed, Dec 01, 1999 at 12:17:23PM -0700, Robert L. Harris wrote:
> > 
> > Ok,
> >   I appear to have xserver, etc installed correctly and E.  Now when I do
> > a "startx" it can't find it.  Anyone know what package would have that 
> > in it?   I know how to find out what package contains a file, but what
> > if you don't have that file installed.
> 
> More than likely you do have it installed, but /usr/X11R6/bin is not in
> your path.
> 
> To check, do this:
> 
> echo $PATH
> 
> If /usr/X11R6/bin is not there, then do this:
> 
> (for bash)
> export PATH=${PATH}:/usr/X11R6/bin
> 
> (for csh/tcsh)
> setenv PATH ${PATH}:/usr/X11R6/bin
> 
> Then you should be able to execute it. You can add this path to your
> /etc/profile (or just ~/.profile).
> 
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