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From: Rob Carmichael <robc@globalvc.co.uk>
To: 'Harold Pulcher - Killer Computing' <pulcher@killercomputing.com>
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Subject: RE: whereis not working ?
Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 09:39:33 +0100
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thanx for your help, and yes X wasn't/isn't installed (but then thats cause
i have no idea what i'm doing).

thanx everyone for your time,
rob
> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Harold Pulcher - Killer Computing [SMTP:pulcher@killercomputing.com]
> Sent:	Thursday, May 11, 2000 10:22 PM
> To:	Matt Rohrer; Rob Carmichael
> Cc:	'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'
> Subject:	Re: whereis not working ?
> 
> > On Thu, 11 May 2000, Rob Carmichael wrote:
> >
> > > I get this when i run "whereis":
> > >
> > > bash-2.03$ whereis gmatrix
> > > Warning: couldn't stat file /usr/X11R6/man!
> > > gmatrix:
> > >
> > > Any ideas ?
> >
> > Add /usr/X11R6/man to your MANPATH, perhaps?
> 
> Nice try.
> 
> What is means is the the directory /usr/X11R6/man does not exist.  It is
> most likely in your startup files.  'whereis' will search all the
> directories in your path as well as a couple more depending on what your
> particular PATH variable looks like.
> 
> I would suggest you go back to your src dir and look at where the command
> should be installed and make sure that directory is in your path.  The
> above
> dir is pretty much a standard.  I am gonna make a guess.  Either X is not
> installed, or it was installed in a non-standard location.  You need to
> change your path to include the X directories.
> 
> Harold


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