Error: -bash: curl: command not found ?

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Error: -bash: curl: command not found ?

I have successfully installed ruby using terminal commands, but for unknown reasons I can no longer access the commands curl, sudo, and many others. I would prefer to figure out what i did to make these commands not available and fix that, but i would also appreciate directions to install the individual opensource files such as "curl-28.0.3" from http://www.opensource.apple.com/darwinsource/10.4.9.x86/. I am a new terminal user, so any and all help is truly appreciated.

Message was edited by: snowmaninthesun

Mac Book Pro Intel, Mac OS X (10.4.9)

Posted on Jul 30, 2007 5:39 PM

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Answer 1

baltwo

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Jul 30, 2007 6:13 PM in response to snowmaninthesun

Suggest you post to the Unix forum: http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=735

BTW, why would you install Ruby when it's already installed.

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Jul 30, 2007 6:19 PM in response to baltwo

i need a full install of 1.8.4. I'm following along examples from a ruby on rails book, and the author says that 1.8.5 isn't compatible with some of the code. Either way my terminal access has still been crippled.

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baltwo

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Jul 30, 2007 8:24 PM in response to snowmaninthesun

Interesting. Thanks for clarifying—details always help. On my installation, the installed version is ruby 1.8.2 (2004-12-25) [powerpc-darwin8.0]. Surprising that you had 1.8.5 installed on your machine. The most likely reason for the inability to run standard commands (BTW, what error messages did you get) is that you've change your $PATH variable (default should be /bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:) or moved them out of /usr/bin/ where at least sudo and curl live.

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Answer 4

Aug 1, 2007 3:28 PM in response to snowmaninthesun

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5045536&#5045536

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baltwo

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Aug 1, 2007 3:32 PM in response to snowmaninthesun

Glad you fixed the $PATH problem. Thanks for the feedback and the link. Good computing.

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