terminal problem

[leemckelvey]

hello there, my first post here

i recently installed YDL 6.1 for the first time and everything installed smoothly, the OS works fine but i have a few problems regarding the terminal.
Now i am very new to linux but i seem to get no response when i type lspci into the terminal, i have done this before when i tried ubuntu but in ydl i get nothing, it just tells me "command not found", have i missed something? i did the default installation so im sure ive not made a mistake, should i be doing commands from a particular directory?

thanks

Lee

[leemckelvey]

nevermind i got it, i needed to type /sbin/lspci.

Lee

[billb]

Right -- the "problem" is that regular users don't have /sbin in their command search path. The root user does, so you can also temporarily become root like this:

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su -

<enter root password>

And note there's a difference between "su -" and "su" by itself (without the hyphen).

[leemckelvey]

ah yes, thanks very much i tried su - and it worked

linux is hard but very nice to work with.

Lee