[vox-tech] Linux 10.4 update problems

[Brian Lavender]

On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 12:32:11AM -0800, Jason Snyder wrote:
>    I just upgraded to linux 10.4 from linux 9.10 and am having problems
>    with running programs and looking at directories in the terminal.
>    For instance the command ls should give me all the contents of the
>    directory that I am in.  However, this is what I get when I enter ls:
>    snyderjm at snyderjm-laptop:/$ ls
>    Command 'ls' is available in '/bin/ls'
>    The command could not be located because '/bin' is not included in the
>    PATH environment variable.
>    ls: command not found

Make sure that if you ever add something to your path, that you don't destroy
what was in your path before.

export PATH=$PATH:/my/extra/path/directory

Perhaps that is what happened.

brian
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