[GTALUG] Uh-oh. Command not found

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On Mon, 6 Jul 2015, phiscock at ee.ryerson.ca wrote:

> Because Firefox kept locking up and various other things were out of date,
> I decided to upgrade to the latest version of Linux Mint. The upgrade
> seemed to work but resulted in a blank desktop, so I decided a complete
> re-install was required.
>
> So I backed up the /home directory to an external USB hard drive,
> programmed a USB key with a Mint .iso and booted up into the latest Mint.

    If you keep /home on a separate partition, you wouldn't have this problem.

...
> So I decided that the simplest route was to re-install.
>
> Then, for some reason, the USB key wouldn't boot. Fortunately, an old
> Knoppix CD did boot, establishing that boot from CD was still working. So
> I prevailed on my friend Gabriel to burn me an .iso on DVD, and that
> worked.
>
> So, to my colleagues in TLUG, I ask: How would you deal with the
> re-location of /bin, assuming you didn't want to re-install?

PATH=$PATH:/path/to/bin

    Or:

mv /path/to/bin /

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Chris F.A. Johnson, <http://cfajohnson.com>