Re: APT-GET Upgrade problem <solved>
On Monday 16 January 2006 10:18 am, Don wrote:
> Ok so I had issues with my Debian system and got myself into a bind.
> Reloaded from woody CD's and ended up with mouse issues I could not fix.
> Threw in the towel and reloaded once again. Mouse works fine but now I
> have a problem in APT. When attempting to upgrade to the latest versions
> of loaded packages (heading to Sarge then to Kernel update) I get the
> following:
>
> Preconfiguring packages ...
>
> Info: dictionaries-common/default-ispell is already set to
>
> [american (American English)]. Preserving it.
>
> Info: dictionaries-common/default-wordlist is already set to
>
> [american (American English)]. Preserving it.
>
> dpkg: `ldconfig' not found on PATH.
>
> dpkg: `start-stop-daemon' not found on PATH.
>
> dpkg: `install-info' not found on PATH.
>
> dpkg: `update-rc.d' not found on PATH.
>
> dpkg: 4 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)
>
>
>
> However when I check the Root .profile I have the following entry for my
> Path:
>
> PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin/
>X 11
>
> export PATH
>
> This contains everything that apt-get is stating should be there. Now
> what?
>
>
>
> Don
Did a google search (I know - I should have done that first) and found a
reference to this exact problem Opened a root terminal and simply entered
the path even though it was there originally and it worked. Not sure WHY it
worked, but it did.
Don
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