Nothing happens when i click google-chrome icon. I get "command not found" errors when i try launching google-chrome from the terminal

Tendongze Godson

1/27/24, 6:15 PM

I changed my PATH environment variables when i was trying to install Java on my pc, then i tried restoring the old PATH by completely uninstalling java from my pc which caused google-chrome to stop working. I tried doing some exports in order to remedy the situation to no avail. Nothing happens when i click the google-chrome icon and i get the following errors when i try launching chrome from the terminal with google-chrome command

/usr/bin/google-chrome: line 8: readlink: command not found
/usr/bin/google-chrome: line 24: mkdir: command not found
/usr/bin/google-chrome: line 45: exec: cat: not found
/usr/bin/google-chrome: line 46: exec: cat: not found

The result of echo $PATH is /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/snap/bin

Please help. I use Ubuntu 18.04

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ubfan1

1/27/24, 6:33 PM

Your PATH is probably still messed up. Please add the output of echo $PATH to your original posting.

Tendongze Godson

1/28/24, 10:23 PM

The result of echo $PATH is /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/snap/bin

ubfan1

1/28/24, 10:29 PM

The "/bin/usr/games" seems wrong. Should be /bin:/usr/games

ubfan1

1/29/24, 5:50 PM

The default PATH is from /etc/environment and user modifications are usually made in .profile. Looks like your /etc/environment file may have the problem -- did you change it?

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Max Ballard

1/29/24, 5:16 PM

The problem is bin is not in your path, which is why readlink, mkdir, and cat, are not able to be found. The problem seems to be right there:

/bin/usr/games:/usr/local/games:

I would first check to see if you have a directory /bin/usr/games and if you don't then change that part in your path to

/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:

If you do have that directory then just add this to the end of your path

:/bin

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Tendongze Godson

1/31/24, 6:34 AM

Thank you so much @Maximilian for your help. It worked perfectly.

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