strange terminal problem

xaqintosh

xaqintosh

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whenever I try to type in various commands, especially with fink, it says command not found, unless I type "/sw/bin/fink" every time
that gets obnoxious, what should I do to fix it?

also, when I use finkcommander, it says my download program is not installed. what should I do? I tried downloading and installing curl and wget, I don't think it worked.
 
You must set your path environment variable to include /sw/bin and /sw/sbin. You do this using the setenv command, and you can put this into your .login file.
 
hey !!!
make sure u have
Code: 
source /sw/bin/init.csh

in ur .cshrc file in ur home dir
i.e ( ~/.cshrc )
 
o well, hopefully u were/are using the tcsh shell.

add this to your .cshrc file

Code: 
set path=( /sw/bin /sw/sbin $PATH )
 
I had the same kinda problem before try doing this.

type su into your command prompt

enter root password

type in chown -R yourusername /sw



where yourusername is well you guessed it it's your user name. You can find your user name by typing in whoami


When I installed fink all the commands and packages were under root. So by using chown you are making the files belong to you.




ez,
Jason
 
Last login: Sat Jan 4 23:20:07 on console
Welcome to Darwin!
[xaqs-Computer:~] xaq% su
Password:
[xaqs-Computer:/volumes/Users/xaq] xaq# chown -R xaq /sw
[xaqs-Computer:/volumes/Users/xaq] xaq# exit
exit
[xaqs-Computer:~] xaq% fink dselect
fink: Command not found.
[xaqs-Computer:~] xaq%


:confused:
 
Does your /sw directory look like this?

[Hydraulixs-Computer:/sw] hydraulix% ls -l
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 963 hydrauli admin 32742 Jan 4 08:43 bin
drwxr-xr-x 3 hydrauli admin 102 Dec 9 14:11 doc
drwxr-xr-x 35 hydrauli admin 1190 Jan 2 04:28 etc
drwxr-xr-x 14 hydrauli admin 476 Dec 8 22:35 fink
drwxr-xr-x 875 hydrauli admin 29750 Jan 4 08:41 include
drwxr-xr-x 1365 hydrauli admin 46410 Jan 4 08:41 lib
drwxr-xr-x 19 hydrauli admin 646 Dec 27 04:10 sbin
drwxr-xr-x 88 hydrauli admin 2992 Jan 4 08:41 share
drwxr-xr-x 180 hydrauli admin 6120 Jan 4 21:21 src
drwxr-xr-x 10 hydrauli admin 340 Dec 15 06:01 var
[Hydraulixs-Computer:/sw] hydraulix%
 
Last login: Sun Jan 5 00:26:39 on ttyp1
Welcome to Darwin!
[xaqs-Computer:~] xaq% cd /sw
[xaqs-Computer:/sw] xaq% ls -l
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 80 xaq admin 2720 Dec 30 18:13 bin
drwxr-xr-x 7 xaq admin 238 Jan 3 21:04 etc
drwxr-xr-x 9 xaq admin 306 Dec 30 18:13 fink
drwxr-xr-x 2 xaq admin 68 Jan 3 21:03 fink.tmp
drwxr-xr-x 22 xaq admin 748 Dec 30 18:13 include
drwxr-xr-x 47 xaq admin 1598 Dec 30 18:13 lib
drwxr-xr-x 9 xaq admin 306 Dec 30 18:13 sbin
drwxr-xr-x 13 xaq admin 442 Dec 30 18:13 share
drwxr-xr-x 3 xaq admin 102 Jan 3 21:04 src
drwxr-xr-x 8 xaq admin 272 Dec 30 18:13 var
[xaqs-Computer:/sw] xaq%
 
Ha I just noticed something. The command is not fink dselect it's just dselect. I've been up for 28 hours trying to get back to the normal groove of seeing sunlight when I wake up. Try typing in dselect.



 
[xaqs-Computer:~] xaq% dselect
dselect: Command not found.
[xaqs-Computer:~] xaq% sudo dselect
Password:
sudo: dselect: command not found
[xaqs-Computer:~] xaq%
 
weird. All I can say is just make sure that your
source /sw/bin/init.csh .cshrc file in your home dir is the first line in that screen and not the second. Just hit the delete key to go up a line in the beginning of source /sw/bin/init.csh
 
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