Synaptic

[Laurie Bell]

laurie at bouduin-desktop:~$ cd /etc/apt
laurie at bouduin-desktop:/etc/apt$ ls -l
total 28
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-11-25 12:55 apt.conf.d
-rw------- 1 root root    0 2007-10-15 19:18 secring.gpg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3108 2007-12-21 19:16 sources.list
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-10-15 16:40 sources.list.d
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3048 2007-11-25 14:45 sources.list.save
-rw------- 1 root root 1200 2007-10-15 19:18 trustdb.gpg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2393 2007-10-15 19:18 trusted.gpg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2381 2007-10-15 19:18 trusted.gpg~
laurie at bouduin-desktop:/etc/apt$ echo $path

laurie at bouduin-desktop:/etc/apt$ 

urie at bouduin-desktop:~$ echo $path

laurie at bouduin-desktop:~$ 


Echo does nothing.Am I doing Something wrong?



 
UBUNTU - I am what I am because of who we all are.


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From: R. Wood <rw at ncf.ca>
To: The Canadian Ubuntu Users Community <ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com>
Sent: Friday, December 21, 2007 9:32:03 PM
Subject: Re: Synaptic


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Allegedly, on Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 09:25:04PM -0500, Andrew Mathenge
 stated:
> So you have a dual-boot system right? But you're currently booted
 into
> Ubuntu.
> 
> Well, try the following:
> 
> 1. Open a Terminal
> 2. Type in the following command to switch to the /etc/apt folder
> 
>             cd /etc/apt
> 
> 3. Type in the following command to get a list of the files there
> 
>             ls -l
> 
> 4. Copy the output of this command from the Terminal and paste it in
 the
> reply email to the list so that we can see what's there
> 
> 5. Also, type in the following command:
> 
>             echo $PATH
> 
> 6. Copy the output of that command and send it as well.
> 
> Let's see where we go from there.
> 
> Andrew.

Well said -- thanks for saving me an email  :-)

Have Fun with GNU/Linux,
Raymond
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