Commands in Terminal dont works after install

Mikald · March 28, 2011, 11:31pm

My commands like

ifconfig
nano

etc dont work in terminal. This is my first attempt trying openSUSE and I have been using ubuntu, linux mint and backtrack 4 r2 before.

What to do?

jdmcdaniel3 · March 29, 2011, 12:10am

My commands like

ifconfig
nano

etc dont work in terminal. This is my first attempt trying openSUSE and I have been using ubuntu, linux mint and backtrack 4 r2 before.

What to do?
Hello Mikald and welcome to the openSUSE forums.

The Text editor Nano is not installed by default. To install Nano, go to the following Applications:

YaST / Software / Software Management / Search Tab & Search on nano

When the application nano is found, check the block next to the Package name and install nano and you should then be able to run nano from the terminal prompt.

The application ifconfig requires that you have root permissions (and paths) to run. To run ifconfig do the following in terminal:

su -
password:
ifconfig

Now, the normal way to adjust or check your networking setup, it is suggested you go to:

YaST / Network Devices / Network Settings

Using the ifup method is the manual way and corresponds to the usage of ifconfig. You can also enable the NetworkManager which can automatically connect when you have more than one network connection or also have a wireless connection you want to use.

Thank You,

martin_helm · March 29, 2011, 12:45am

jdmcdaniel3 wrote:

>
> The application ifconfig requires that you have root permissions (and
> paths) to run. To run ifconfig do the following in terminal:
>
>
> Code:
> --------------------
> su -
> password:
> ifconfig
> --------------------
You do not need to be root to run it as long as you do not want to change
anything. If you want to run ifconfig just to get information from it call
it as a normal user with the complete path
/sbin/ifconfig

DenverD · March 29, 2011, 12:48am

On 03/28/2011 11:36 PM, Mikald wrote:
>
> My commands like
>
> ifconfig
> nano
>
> etc dont work in terminal. This is my first attempt trying openSUSE and
> I have been using ubuntu, linux mint and backtrack 4 r2 before.
>
> What to do?
>
>

did you not get an error message??
when you get an error message always include it in your help request…

you didn’t but i guess you are trying

sudo ifconfig

which won’t work here…the methods Ubuntu uses for sudo is different
from all others as far as i know…

additionally ifconfig is located in /sbin, and /sbin is not in your
path, so therefore it is not in sudo’s path either…so, here there
are two ways to run ifconfig (and all others in /sbin)

user the fully qualified path name with sudo, like:

sudo /sbin/ifconfig

or 2. become root using this command:


su -

then issue ifconfig

more on this in:

http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Login_as_root
http://tinyurl.com/ydbwssh
http://tinyurl.com/4nsaqst

you will find other differences…Debian and SUSE have been on
different paths since the beginning of time…other small differences
between openSUSE and other systems you are familiar with are scattered
around in these:
http://old-en.opensuse.org/Concepts
http://en.opensuse.org/Concepts

welcome!

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tararpharazon · March 29, 2011, 2:51am

Sounds like a bad install or a custom install that skipped an important package. I agree with Martin_helm that you don’t need superuser for ifconfig but nano does need to be installed.
It could be that your $PATH is mis-configured or configured for Ubuntu, Mint that excludes the /bin/, /usr/bin/, /sbin/, /usr/sbin/, etc. or .bashrc
Last I hope you installed openSUSE 11.4 from the DVD and not a LiveCD/DVD. IMHO, the installs from the LiveCD doesn’t install complete packages, libraries and tools.

You should see this error message for nano:


If 'nano' is not a typo you can use command-not-found to lookup the package that contains it, like this:
    cnf nano

meaning its not installed.

Could you run


zypper ve 
zypper ps

Have you tried using different terminals, Xterm, Gnome-terminal, KDE-terminals, Linux 32 terminal?

Mikald · March 30, 2011, 4:30pm

Thanks for help. I did not install from livecd or anything. I did install from the DVD downloaded to an USB stick. And now it is working proberly when I typed su -

Thanks for help

jdmcdaniel3 · March 30, 2011, 11:41pm

Thanks for help. I did not install from livecd or anything. I did install from the DVD downloaded to an USB stick. And now it is working proberly when I typed su -

Thanks for help
Happy to help Mikald. Please, just let us know if you need any other assistance with openSUSE.

Thank You,