Re: recognition of dkpg file by OS
On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 05:27:41PM +0000, Michael Fothergill wrote:
>
> I tried to run dkpg.
>
It's dpkg, not dkpg
>
> mikef@spc2-burn3-0-0-cust329:/etc$ dkpg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86
> bash: dkpg-reconfigure: command not found
>
> As you see it didn't work. So I tried using whereis
>
> mikef@spc2-burn3-0-0-cust329:/etc$ whereis dkpg
> dkpg:
>
> Neither did that.
>
> I thought, well it must be somewhere so I looked in /etc and typed
>
> ls -l
>
> It listed a whole of files including apt and well known files like emacs
>
> In the list I saw
>
> drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2006-10-17 14:54 dpkg
>
> But if you type in
>
> ls -l dkpg you get
> mikef@spc2-burn3-0-0-cust329:/etc$ pwd
> /etc
> mikef@spc2-burn3-0-0-cust329:/etc$ ls -l dkpg
> ls: dkpg: No such file or directory
> mikef@spc2-burn3-0-0-cust329:/etc$ ls -la dkpg
> ls: dkpg: No such file or directory
> mikef@spc2-burn3-0-0-cust329:/etc$
>
> It's as if it is there but it cannot be seen. Is this some kind of file
> permission problem? Or is my OS not feeling well today....?
>
> If you try to run dkpg i.e.
>
> mikef@spc2-burn3-0-0-cust329:/etc$ /etc/dkpg
> bash: /etc/dkpg: No such file or directory
>
>
> it doesn't see it.
>
> Being root doesn't help either.
>
> spc2-burn3-0-0-cust329:/etc# /etc/dkpg
> bash: /etc/dkpg: No such file or directory
> spc2-burn3-0-0-cust329:/etc# ls -l dkpg
> ls: dkpg: No such file or directory
> spc2-burn3-0-0-cust329:/etc#
>
> Suggestions welcome.
>
> I hope this is a better posting this time.
>
> Regards
>
> Michael Fothergill
>
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