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help made mistake with export and ~/.bashrc
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There should not be a space between the entries in $PATH, just
:. Plus, this is syntactically wrong:exportallows to set multiple variables separated by space, likeexport A=a B=b. You're essentially doingexport A=a Bwhich makes it ignore the B part as it is nonsensical.Also path should contain directories, and
/usr/sbin/grub-install/grub-installisn't a directory. In fact it almost certainly does not exist at all.Path should contain at least
/usr/bin. That's why no command works, they're all in/usr/bin. The shell looks through all the directories in $PATH (separated by:) to find commands.