Hello!

I have installed Solaris 10 and also some programs like wget and vim however, when I try to run them it says "not found".

I need to figure out how to edit the Path but I'm super confused about all the directories and I don't even know which ones I need to add to path.

The default was /usr/bin:/usr/ucb:/etc:.

I added usr/local/bin to the end of that in .profile using vi, but I'm not sure that even did anything! Or maybe that means the programs I downloaded are not located there. Please help if you can!

It is quite possible that this does not even make sense because I have never used this before and I don't have a clue what I am doing! Thanks for any advice! )

Well, you should know where those files were installed. If you don't, you can try to find them with find. Typical locations are:
/usr/sfw/bin
/usr/gnu/bin
/opt/csw/bin
/opt/sfw/bin
/usr/local/bin

Once you know the paths, .profile is a good option to set the path for your users. Path can be overridden also in /etc/default/login, which affects all the users.

Bye,
Enrico.

After you change your path in .profile, you have to logout and log back in. If you only need the new version of the path in a shell, you can put the modification in .bashrc and open a new terminal window.

Thank you so much for your help.

I used find to find the files...vim is located in usr/local

so I added that to my path in .profile (plus all the ones from the previous post)and now instead of the Not found error, I get one that says this (when i try to create a file using vim):

ld.so.1: vim: fatal: libncurses.so.5: open failed: No such file or directory
Killed

So obviously it is telling me that i am missing something.libncurses.so.5. At the risk of sounding silly, do you think that means that vim did not install correctly?

And also, thank you for the log out tip...i did not know that!

This error means that this vim, which isn't part of Solaris, hasn't been installed or hasn't been built properly.

What says "ldd /usr/local/lib/vim" ?

If you have installed Solaris Expres Developer Edition or Sun Studio, you have a properly built vim bundled in /opt/SUNWspro/bin/gvim

aaah....okay. Thank you!

btw, after the last post I went back to the download site and i thought you would like to know...if only to laugh, that the reason it was giving me an error is because i did not download the three dependencies that are required. I only downloaded two. Funny that i missed the one called curses.