Real newbie question

[Rusty]

I just installed SmallX (used to be called TinyX) according to the directions on the X86Free website, on my Debian system.

Everything seemed to uncompress properly and to the right destinations. Everything in XF86Config looks right (but what do I know...)

Here's the problem - When I ls the bin directory, startx is there and shows up in green, but when I type startx I get a message "command not found". So I tried typing sh startx, and it starts to run the script, then comes back with xinit: command not found. Why are my programs not able to run??

Thanks from a true newbie!

[z0mbix]

I know this sounds obvious, but what are the permissions on startx?

[Rusty]

Yeah, it's executable for all users & groups. I even added read access for all just in case.

[z0mbix]

Have you tried ./startx within the /bin directory?

[ 08 November 2001: Message edited by: cheeky_zombie ]

[Rusty]

No, I'll give it a try when I get home tonite. Thanks.

[X_console]

It's probably your PATH variable. Make sure you have bin in your PATH. Eg:

export PATH=$PATH:/bin

Then try running startx again.

[Rusty]

Thanks, X_console...now I seem to have other problems but troubleshooting seems to be the best way to learn about Linux at the moment, so I'll plug away at it.

Ironic that something so similar to DOS was my downfall this time.