Solved vim: Command not found, on user.

[rigoletto@]

Hello,

I installed vim-lite and it work as expected on root, but when I try to use it on user:

vim: Command not found.

I do not know if it is intended or not.

PS. vi works.

Thanks!

 

[scottro]

Assuming your user is using one of the Bourne style shells such as sh or bash try

hash -r

Sometimes a shell has to reread its paths to acknowledge a new command.

 

[rigoletto@]

scottro

hash -r didn't help. I indeed changed the user shell to csh. But vim is also not working on sh, I tried.

Thanks!

 

[Maxnix]

Perhaps you don't have /usr/local/bin in your $PATH? This would explain why vi, being part of the base system, works, but vim not.

 

[rigoletto@]

Hi,

The installation is new, so there was not anything important related to that user. I deleted he and created again. Now it works.

Thanks!

 

[Maxnix]

You're welcome. However, remember to learn fixing problems, instead of using the delete/recreate approach. This will help you a lot in your journey with Unix systems, and it's one of the beauty of Unix itself.

P.S. Don't forget scottro's suggestion: when you install a new program, use hash -r.

 

[rigoletto@]

hum... it is back after a reboot.

/usr/bin:/bin

I need to find what is causing it.

 

[Maxnix]

You just had to add /usr/local/bin to your $PATH in ~/.profile:

export PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/bin

If you need to add other directories, put them there divided by a : .

 

[rigoletto@]

You just had to add /usr/local/bin to your $PATH in ~/.profile:

export PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/bin

If you need to add other directories, put them there divided by a : .

Ok, I think understood. I created the user with csh shell, the old one was created with sh but I changed to csh later.

On .profile there is:

#PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:$HOME/bin; export PATH

commenting it out does not helped because csh uses setenv instead of export.

So, setenv PATH /sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:$HOME/bin did the trick.

Thanks!

 

[SirDice]

For csh(1) change ~/.cshrc. The ~/.profile is only read by Bourne shells (sh(1), bash(1), etc).