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Having what feels like a really weird problem.
Running 32-bit Ubuntu 12.04 as a virtual machine on a 64-bit Win7 host.
Open Emacs 23 and turn on server mode. In Bash, try to call emacsclient to edit some arbitrary script. The terminal just fires straight back, emacsclient: command not found.
Is there something that is likely to be missing? Some way of updating the bash shell? It can find man pages for the command, so I know it's not something obvious like a misspelling.
OP provided an answer by himself:
Someone pointed me at the solution: I ran
sudo apt-get install --reinstall emacs23-bin-commonand nowemacsclientworks like a charm.
Generally way to fix this kind of problems:
apt-get install apt-file
apt-file update
Afterwards you can search for your missing command with:
apt-file find bin/emacsclient
emacs23-bin-common: /usr/bin/emacsclient.emacs23
sudo apt-get install --reinstall emacs23-bin-commonand now emacsclient works like a charm. – tlm Dec 7 '12 at 18:08