[ale] ubuntu install has no $PATH?

[Rich Faulkner]

Ah, Photoshop.  I can understand why he keeps to it.  I'm a graphics guy
too and although I can live w/o Photoshop I do prefer CorelDraw (which
BTW did have a Linux distro back in the 90's called Corel Linux that
included their graphics suite - or at least part of it).  I keep a VM of
windows around for CorelDraw 10 for which I'm partial.  Not too big on
Inkscape or Gimp so far but too used to the graphics tools that I've
used for over over a decade and a half.  Thus I see where he's coming
from...

...hmmm...makes me wonder if I still have my copy of Corel Linux?  I
know I had Photo Paint to go with it...




On Tue, 2011-07-26 at 10:32 -0400, Jim Kinney wrote:
> So call with my friend last night and his solution was to blow away
> the install and install fedora 14 and all the updates. A few google
> checks on how to install rpmfusion multi-media-everything and adobe
> flash with the yum repo from both and he's all good to go.
> 
> The hardware is a 6 year old laptop with a dead battery and a totally
> flaky keyboard and touchpad. Were this for him he would have thrown
> out the laptop but it's for an elderly neighbor who wants to just use
> gmail to keep up with the grandkids.
> 
> I suspect the bad keyboard was an issue but have no way of testing as
> he's out of town relative to me.
> 
> Now if I can get him to STOP USING PHOTOSHOP (photographer) and use
> the gimp (book: "the gimp for photographers" is at microcenter!) he'll
> cut all ties and be fully in Linux land.
> 
> On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 10:50 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>         A friend who is a very green Linux user installed Ubuntu
>         (latest whatever version) and went to install adobe flash. It
>         required some command line-fu (which he didn't have) so he
>         called me.
>         
>         -> I'm not an ubuntu person <-
>         
>         So I was trying to find out what file type he was trying to
>         install so I asked hi to open a terminal (he was in the normal
>         X session) and run ls and tell me the name of the file he
>         downloaded.
>         
>         It errored with "no command or file by than name". So I had
>         him do a "pwd". Same error. Ditto on "echo $PATH"
>         
>         W   T   F    !!!!!
>         
>         the command he _needed_ to run was sudo apt-get flash.....
>         but he couldn't recall if it was saved in the Downloads
>         directory or the home directory. So he tried to cd and it
>         failed.
>         
>         Unfortunately, we were talking over the cell phones while I
>         was in a busy and loud store so literally spelling out each
>         letter of a working PATH "alpha bravo charlie" style was not
>         going to happen.
>         
>         Now I have been pretty harsh on messed up distro stupids in
>         the past but I can't fathom how an install could complete and
>         leave no working path variables set.
>         
>         Any ideas how during an install (that appeared to conclude
>         correctly) Ubuntu could have left off PATH? More importantly,
>         ideas on how to NOT recreate this?
>         
>         -- 
>         -- 
>         James P. Kinney III
>         
>         As long as the general population is passive, apathetic,
>         diverted to consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the
>         powerful can do as they please, and those who survive will be
>         left to contemplate the outcome.
>         - 2011 Noam Chomsky
>         
>         http://heretothereideas.blogspot.com/
>         
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> -- 
> James P. Kinney III
> 
> As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, diverted to
> consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as
> they please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the
> outcome.
> - 2011 Noam Chomsky
> 
> http://heretothereideas.blogspot.com/
> 
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