cannot find commands such as man or rpm

General Discussion
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Flashed BBB to AM335x 11.7 2023-09-02 4GB eMMC IoT Flasher
BeagleBoard.org Debian Bullseye IoT Image 2023-09-02

After the flash I cannot execute man or rpm commands
Get message:
-bash: man: command not found
-bash: rpm: command not found
whereis man
man: /usr/local/man /usr/share/man
whereis rpm
rpm:
echo $PATH
/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games
Very new to BBB. Did I miss something in the upgrade process?

2

Hi @Jcal Debian use dpkg/apt-get vs Fedora/RedHat’s rpm…

Regards,

3

Robert thank you for your help.
As I stated I am new to BBB. Last used Linux in the 80’s.
Will google get and rpm.

Can anyone elaborate on man not found?

4

man is usually not installed on the iot image to save space.

sudo apt-get update ; sudo apt-get install man-db

Regards,

5

Ok. I guess I can live with that for now. If googling (hmm. that even a word) for help on commands gets to cumbersome will install “man”.

Is the Debian opsys on BBB the same as that found at https://www.debian.org/
or is there a site where I can find documentation specific to Debian on BBB

6

Correct, it’s just Debian.

The easiest way to do a binary search for debian packages is: Debian -- Packages

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Regards,

7

Thanks again for your help. Much appreciated

JCal