Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2000 10:56:18 -0400 (EDT) From: Damon Hammis <squirrel@hammis.com> To: "Dimitri T." <midios4@hotmail.com> Cc: jkonecn@green-mfg.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: packages Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10007051055320.78752-100000@markl.com> In-Reply-To: <20000705135823.19206.qmail@hotmail.com>
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the locate command works wonders too. you may have to run /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb first though. On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, Dimitri T. wrote: > I guess, you can always use 'whereis' if you know the exact name of the > package. Try man whereis. > > You can see its exact name, during the /stand/sysinstall installation. > > bye, > Dimitri > > >On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, Joe Konecny wrote: > > > > > I'm no expert with fbsd so bear with me. I'm running v4. > > > I just installed INN version 2.2.2. It was the first > > > package I've ever installed. I did it with sysinstall. > > > It appears to have installed ok as it is listed with > > > pkg_info. Problem is that I have no idea where it is. > > > Where does pkg_add typically place apps? > > > >Either in the /usr/local or (X11 apps) the /usr/X11R6 tree. > >INN will be extracted into the /usr/local tree, mostly into > >/usr/local/news. > > ________________________________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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