macOS sudo "Command not found"

[Spontida]

I am tryign to install wine and i've been following this guide: http://www.cultofmac.com/185565/how...mac-without-boot-camp-or-parallels-feature/2/ I entered all the commands before the

sudo port install wine

and I got stuck because sudo is not found...

$PATH gives me

/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:: No such file or directory

 

[chrfr]

...I got stuck because sudo is not found

What's the output of

which sudo

Most likely the error you're seeing is that whatever you're typing after sudo is what's not found.

 

[kryten2]

I am tryign to install wine and i've been following this guide: http://www.cultofmac.com/185565/how...mac-without-boot-camp-or-parallels-feature/2/ I entered all the commands before the "sudo install wine" and I got stuck because sudo is not found...

$PATH gives me

/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:: No such file or directory

The site your linking to is about installing wine through MacPorts. It should be :

sudo port install wine

not :

sudo install wine

.

Please post the exact commands or lines you pasted in Terminal and the exact output or errors you got of those commands. Or make a screenshot of your Terminal window.

 

[kage207]

Uh, are you on the admin account? Cause every Unix machine has the ability to sudo, it means to run as admin, even if you aren't on the admin user account.

 

[Spontida]

What's the output of

which sudo

Most likely the error you're seeing is that whatever you're typing after sudo is what's not found.

From

 which sudo

I get

 command not found

 

[kryten2]

Your PATH is messed up. It should be something like this before you started :

/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin

After running this :

echo export PATH=/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:\$PATH$'\n'export MANPATH=/opt/local/man:\$MANPATH | sudo tee -a /etc/profile

it would be :

/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin

Close your Terminal window. Open a new Terminal window and type :

echo $PATH
cat /etc/profile

Post the output you get from those lines. sudo can be found in the /usr/bin directory. If you navigate to that folder in the Finder you can check if it is there.

 

[Spontida]

I got no output but sudo is indeed there.

If I type in $PATH again, the output is this still:

-bash: /opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:: No such file or directory

I also still get:

-bash: sudo: command not found

When typing

which sudo

 

[robvas]

Try whereis sudo

 

[tominco]

Simply try

/usr/bin/sudo <whatever_command_follows>

then be prepared to enter your password to continue.

But beware. Any commands you issue preceded by sudo will be run as "root" (aka administrator) on your computer and you are at risk of screwing things up rather nicely if you don't know what you're doing with the Unix command line.

 

[aarond12]

Both the "which sudo" and "whereis sudo" commands should give you "/usr/bin/sudo". If you're getting "command not found" on "which", then your computer has some serious problems.

Have you tried: sudo -s