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From: Jt <hometeam@techpower.net>
To: Michael Haro <perl@netmug.org>
cc: Rick Verhaalen <rvh@execpc.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: can not run executables
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try "sh program name" see if it finds and loads it. 
or "whereis program"  or locate program
what dir this program in ? needs to be in your path.

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On Tue, 3 Feb 1998, Michael Haro wrote:

> On Tue, 3 Feb 1998, Rick Verhaalen wrote:
> 
> > I recently installed Mesa-2.5 on my FreeBSD v2.2.5 system.  When I try to
> > run some of the executables, I get "command not found".  When I do a ls -l
> > on the directories, it will list the program as executable.  I am doing
> > this while logged in as root.  I've encountered this problem before with
> > files that were installed post-FreeBSD installation.
> 
> The executable is probably not in your path.  You can execute it by typing
> ./executable or by adding the path the executable is in to your PATH
> environment variable.
> 
> Michael
> 
>