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Hi
I've just been playing with the terminal for my server - I'm running under BASH-2.05 the problem I seem to have it that I don't have all the commands in my bin directory
ex I can't run tar to extract a .tar file since I dont have the tar binary!
What I am actually trying to do is complile ffmpeg (streaming video module for gallery 2 support) but running .configure ends up with lots of errors since most of the commands I need are not available.
any place where I can get a complete bin library?
cheers
mal haskins
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First question is which 'bin' directory are you looking at?
Basic Unix commands go in /bin, most linux executables go in /usr/bin and /usr/local/bin is for user compiled programs.
This contrasts with other *nixes,
e.g.
Linux
/usr/bin/perl
vs Solaris
/usr/local/bin/perl
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I was looking directly in the bin folder on my server root.
I have no usr/bin or usr/local/bin
under usr I have
usr/lib
usr/libexec
usr/share
none of these have bin files - but have items to allow me to run the sshterm etc.
downloaded the bash-2.05 files directly of the web and had a look at the package - only seems to have the basic file includes.
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Maybe an install of bash v3.0 would be the quickest fix
http://directory.fsf.org/all/bash.html
Failing that, post the distro youre running and the exact error messages
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