Martin Gregorie wrote: > On Thu, 2011-11-10 at 22:35 -0600, dimesio wrote: > > > dE_logics wrote: > > > > > Nothing will happen (and nothing happened), winetricks is only available in the current directory, so it says command not found. > > > > > > > > > > How did you get winetricks? I've never used ./ in front of it, and it executes just fine for me. > > > > > Some distros (the RedHat ones and probably others) don't include '.' or > $HOME in $PATH by default. The first thing I do when I set up a new > login users is to make sure '.', $HOME and $HOME/bin are added to $PATH, > preferably at the right end. Its such an automatic action that its easy > to forget you did it years ago. > > To dE_logics: > > It sounds like your $HOME directory isn't in your search path. Post the > output from this: > > <code> > echo $PATH > </code> > > So we can see what your search path looks like. > > > Martin Having '.' and $HOME in $PATH can lead to subtle failures, if you create a file that has the same name as an existing command. Simple example: the updatedb command from mlocate
