Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1999 00:35:51 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom Huppi <th@huppi.com> To: Joe <joe@team7.cba.ualr.edu> Cc: J McKitrick <jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: (probably) dumb question about ports collection Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9910040013220.3486-100000@sis.huppih.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.9910040107500.656-100000@njal.ualr.edu>
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On Mon, 4 Oct 1999, Joe wrote: > > > 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? Probably, but you could verify this by echo $PATH to see your current path statement, and cd'ing to a directory (like /usr/local/bin/ ) and looking for the file in question I think. Also, don't forget the pkg_info -Ia to see if the system thinks it's installed the package/port. > > jcm > > > You need to do a "make install" after a "make", then you can run the > program. That one got me once! I've been tipped over a couple of times too by not having had the daily script run since the install. One time I wasted half a day trying to figure out why ghostscript wasn't doing the right thing... On my 3.1 (now 3.3) system, periodic daily will run it at will. Maybe coincedence, but as soon as I did this, my printer worked like a champ. There is also a "rehash" command which is, supposedly effective with csh. I have yet to correlate running it with solving any of the particular problems that I have come up against. -Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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