* lakshmi@uomphysics.net (lakshmi@uomphysics.net) [020708 01:23]: > hi all, > I would like to have some help settingup my debian system. I had some > problems confguring the xserver-svga and getting "startx" work. while i was > trying to do this, i messed around uninstalling xserver and some how i > am not able to 'apt-get', dpkg , ... work. > I got the following errors while i tried to "apt-get install -f" > > dpkg:'update-rc.d' not found on PATH > dpkg: 1 expected program(s) not found on PATh. > NB: root's PATH should usually contain /usr/local/sbin, /usr/sbin and > /sbin > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code(2). Are you root? What does your path look like? # echo $PATH Is update-rc.d there? It should be at /usr/sbin/update-rc.d . Like dpkg said, /usr/sbin/ should be in your PATH, and it should find it. If it's really not there, try reinstalling the sysvinit package. good times, Vineet -- http://www.doorstop.net/ -- "Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes." -E.W. Dijkstra
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