VirtualBox

[Gene Heskett]

On Monday 20 October 2014 08:47:26 Thomas Blasejewicz did opine
And Gene did reply:
> (2014/10/20 11:43), Gene Heskett wrote:
> > On Sunday 19 October 2014 21:44:29 Saqman2060 did opine
> > 
> > And Gene did reply:
> >> Also remove the repositories that you added.
> > 
> > Can we see the output of:
> > depmod --version
> > sudo updatedb; locate depmod
> > 
> > And finally, using the full path reported above:
> > ls -l /full/path/to/depmod
> 
> depmod version gives:
> kmod version 15

That is not what I asked, is it?  I asked for 
depmod --version

In the linux way of doing things, those '-' signs are NOT optional, they 
are in fact part of the commend.
 
> sudo updatedb
> gives nothing I can see

Nothing expected, which is why I chained them to run sequentially on the 
same command line with the ';' separator.

> thomas at einklang:~$ locate depmod
> /etc/depmod.d
> /etc/depmod.d/ubuntu.conf

/sbin/depmod  <-------is the executable you want to 'ls -l' of, we want to 
see the permissions as thay exist now.

> /usr/lib/ubiquity/compat/depmod
> /usr/share/man/man5/depmod.d.5.gz
> /usr/share/man/man8/depmod.8.gz
> /usr/src/linux-headers-3.13.0-36/scripts/depmod.sh
> /usr/src/linux-headers-3.13.0-36-generic/scripts/depmod.sh
> /usr/src/linux-headers-3.13.0-37/scripts/depmod.sh
> /usr/src/linux-headers-3.13.0-37-generic/scripts/depmod.sh
> 
> thomas at einklang:~$ ls -l /full/path/to/depmod
> ls: cannot access /full/path/to/depmod: No such file or directory
> 
> The latter one is the TYPICAL output I always get, when I try to this
> command line acrobatics without knowing what I am doing.

In the present case, /full/path/to/depmod is geek shorthand, in your case 
it should be the full path to depmod which is:

ls -l /sbin/depmod

kapish?

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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