Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1998 10:01:37 +0000 (GMT) From: "Jason C. Wells" <jason@washington.edu> To: Mark Cockrum <napalm@halcyon.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Packages Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9809070953330.374-100000@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <199809070539.WAA19646@mail1.halcyon.com>
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On Sun, 6 Sep 1998, Mark Cockrum wrote: >Ok this is a really "newbie" question, so I hope you >don't all chastise me for asking this. I've *just* >started working with FreeBSD, and i'm trying to install >some of the packages included on the CD using pkg_add, >but whenever I use this i can't find an exacutable to >run what i just installed. I've tried going over to the >ports directory for the appropriate directory for the >package i'm trying to install (ex. going over to >/usr/ports/misc/mc for the package mc-4.1.27.tgz) and >runing the make program, but it just gives me an error >that the package isn't in /usr/ports/distfiles. When >i moved the package from the CD into this directory and >ran the same program (make) it tells me their is a >checksum error with the file. > >I know this is probably a really stupid question, but any >help would be appreciated! Please use paragraphs to break up your message. It makes it much easier to read. Executables are installed in a number of places. /bin /sbin /usr/bin /usr/sbin /usr/local/bin /usr/X11R6/bin Chances are that you actually did install packages correctly the first time and just don't know how to find them. You should have a PATH variable set in your shell. Try this... $ echo $PATH If you don't get anything, then you need to edit your shell's initialization file. (.profile or .cshrc to name a couple) You should include the above listed directories in your path. This PATH variable is directly analogous to the path used in winblows in the autoexec file. Also, A package distfile is not the same as a ports distfile. A package is a precompiled binary. A port is source code. To "make" a file you must have the source code tarball. (tarballs are *.tar.gz files) If you try to do make and you have the binary distfiles the make will fail. This is what you have seen. Catchya Later, | UW Mechanical Engineering Jason Wells | http://weber.u.washington.edu/~jcwells/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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