On Friday 15 December 2006 02:30, Tony Nelson wrote: > At 11:48 PM +0000 12/14/06, John Bowden wrote: > ... > > >I have installed dmidecode and lshw through the package manager with out > > any error messages. I tried to run them from a terminal as a user and > > root but get the same message "no such command". Checked it was installed > > by doing a search in the package manager with the all radio button > > checked and they are installed. What am I doing wrong? > > How did you become root? If you use "su -", you will get root's > environment, including the path; if you use "su" you keep your current > environment. /sbin isn't on a normal user's path. Ah I did not know that. You learn something new every day! > > To find where a packages files are, use "rpm -ql <packagename>". (That's a > small L.) Once you know where the file is, you can run it by full path. > -- > ____________________________________________________________________ > TonyN.:' The Great Writ <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > ' is no more. <http://www.georgeanelson.com/> Will have a go tomorrow, er later today. The match sticks holding my eyes open just snapped so I shut the fc6 box down ready to hit the sack. Thanks john -- registered Linux user number 414240 Guy Fawkes the only person to enter the Parliament with honest intentions and he was going to blow them up !
