Hello All - I have a quick question about RH9 packages that may or may not have been installed on my laptop. First the rundown I have a dual boot with RH9 / Win XP Pro on a compaq presario 2100 AMD 1.8 / ATI Video Card / CD-RW DVD / ....

I have another box with RH8 on it and when I use the apt-get command or NMAP in the shell on that box the shell understands those commands. On the RH9 box when I use either of those commands or ifconfig The shell does not understand those commands. Is there a package to install to get those commands working? I thought that nmap and apt-get and ifconfig were built in??? Did something change with the Red Hat 9 distro that I should know about???WHat should I check first to resolve this issue???

Any help would be greatly appreciated

did you install the nmap package??

query its avialability on your system by doing::

rpm -q nmap

Do the same with other commands....

Perhaps you are not logged in as root. Try to su using:
su -

my bad-I should not have assumed that he knows that he should be logged in as root.
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In the console/terminal/xterm
type:
su
--enter your root password---

star typing the above rpm commands to find out if you installed nmap package.
If not install from the cd or download/install it from the shrike.freshrpms.net

ok I know next to my name it says noob but I do have common sense...thank you ...As for logging in as root I tried that to see if that worked originally, but let me ask you this, If the command was only available to root it would return a statement to the effect of "you do not have permission to use this command" not "bash# command not found /bin"

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anyway...

Now back to the package question...

shouldnt apt-get command be installed by default?

Actually no There are certain paths such as /sbin that are usually only loaded into root's PATH environment variable but not a users. So if the program isn't in your path then you won't find it. Even running "su" to get roots privilages doesn't load a new shell for root and hence it still has the default PATHS for your user. To start a new shell and get roots paths then su to root using "su -". Or if you just use "su" then try the full path.

interesting...