Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 09:31:08 +0100 From: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk> To: Thomas Mueller <mueller6727@bellsouth.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Firefox clean installation but does not execute Message-ID: <20110920083108.GA66647@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <20110920082320.8F371106564A@hub.freebsd.org> References: <20110920053708.GA2051@desmo.3rdrock.kicks-ass.net> <20110920082320.8F371106564A@hub.freebsd.org>
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On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 08:23:19AM +0000, Thomas Mueller wrote: > I too had the problem of "Command not found" after freshly installing something from ports, but I thought that was a peculiarity of FreeBSD 9.0-BETA1 and 2. > > I was going to post this question to freebsd-current list. > > For instance, if I typed "which lynx", it was not found, but was found if I ran > ls /usr/bin/local/l* > and it also ran if I typed > /usr/bin/local/lynx > > Software freshly installed from ports would be normally accessible after the next reboot. normally, no reboot required. In tcsh(1) you have to run "rehash". Or just lauch another xterm window, if in an X session. Of logout and login. You really shouldn't need to reboot. -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 331 5944 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423
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