From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 3 23: 9:31 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from team7.cba.ualr.edu (team7.cba.ualr.edu [144.167.120.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F87914EEE for ; Sun, 3 Oct 1999 23:09:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joe@team7.cba.ualr.edu) Received: from access65.mod1.ualr.edu (joe@access65.mod1.ualr.edu [144.167.7.65]) by team7.cba.ualr.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA29288; Mon, 4 Oct 1999 01:09:50 -0500 (CDT) Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1999 01:10:53 -0500 (CDT) From: Joe X-Sender: joe@njal.ualr.edu To: J McKitrick Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: (probably) dumb question about ports collection In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 4 Oct 1999, J McKitrick wrote: > OK, i installed a couple of CD playes from ports, but where are they? In > the ports directory, i typed 'make'' and the program was fetched by ftp, > and make finished without error. But when i typed the name of the > program, it was not found? How can i tell where the program was > installed? SHouldn't it be in a directory already in my path? > > jcm > You need to do a "make install" after a "make", then you can run the program. -Joe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message