Why is dmidecode failing?

[Bruce Burden]

On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 11:15:16AM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote:
> In the last episode (Apr 18), Bruce Burden said:
> >
> > ===>  Installing for hal-0.5.8.20070403
> > ===>   hal-0.5.8.20070403 depends on file: /usr/local/share/pciids/pci.ids - found
> > ===>   hal-0.5.8.20070403 depends on file: /usr/local/bin/python - found
> > ===>   hal-0.5.8.20070403 depends on executable: dmidecode - not found
> 
> This says that dmidecode isn't in your path.  Make sure that
> /usr/local/sbin is in your path, since that's where dmidecode is
> installed.
> 
	Sigh. So simple. So obvious. So infuriating when it
    does not work! Thank you, I do not normally have /usr/local/
    sbin in my path, obviously. 

							Bruce
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