From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 22 15:13:46 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA11450 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 22 May 1997 15:13:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from xmission.xmission.com (softweyr@xmission.xmission.com [198.60.22.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA11426 for ; Thu, 22 May 1997 15:13:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from softweyr@localhost) by xmission.xmission.com (8.8.5/8.7.5) id QAA22093; Thu, 22 May 1997 16:13:08 -0600 (MDT) From: Wes Peters - Softweyr LLC Message-Id: <199705222213.QAA22093@xmission.xmission.com> Subject: Re: help To: joki@kuebart.stuttgart.netsurf.de (Joachim Kuebart) Date: Thu, 22 May 1997 16:12:59 -0600 (MDT) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Joachim Kuebart" at May 22, 97 12:44:28 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On 22-May-97 at 02:18:43 USER wrote: % i just got a copy of freebsd and have installed it, and eliminated all % the conflicts. I am running it on a home pc 486dx 100mhz with 16m ram % in hopes to learn more about unix. I seem to have this problem where i % cant figure out how to run the games or xwindows. When i try to run a % file it says cannot find command, do i need to gunzip anything? Do i % need to set a different path? This is most likely the problem -- games live in /usr/games and *most* X11 programs live in /usr/X11R6/bin. If these are not in your path, they should be. % I went with the defaults. What am i doing % wrong? why can i not execute anything it says i have access rights. Joachim Kuebart replied: > Have you installed XWindow yet? If not, you will have to go to > /usr/ports/x11/XFree86 and "make all install clean", and do the same in > XFree86-contrib. Oh, heavens no, you don't need to build it. If you have the CD, just install from the XFree86 directory on the CD. If you don't, go to ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/XFree86/current and follow the download and installation instructions there. > If you have installed XWindow, add /usr/X11R6/bin to your path to run it. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.xmission.com/~softweyr softweyr@xmission.com