From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 28 14:31:25 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA19829 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 28 Jul 1998 14:31:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from phoenix.welearn.com.au (suebla.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.44.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA19711 for ; Tue, 28 Jul 1998 14:30:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sue2@phoenix.welearn.com.au) Received: (from sue2@localhost) by phoenix.welearn.com.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) id HAA27219; Wed, 29 Jul 1998 07:29:39 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <19980729072936.31289@welearn.com.au> Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 07:29:36 +1000 From: Sue Blake To: Thomas Dean Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pkg_add mc : error References: <35BCA071.992ECF45@swn.de> <199807271551.IAA17067@ix.netcom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.88e In-Reply-To: <199807271551.IAA17067@ix.netcom.com>; from Thomas Dean on Mon, Jul 27, 1998 at 08:51:35AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Jul 27, 1998 at 08:51:35AM -0700, Thomas Dean wrote: > > Any idea ? We lost the context here. So that it's not a total waste of bandwidth, I'll mention that the original question was about not being able to work out how to run Midnight Commander after installing the package. > Look at /var/db/pkg/mc. You should see several files. The +CONTENTS > file shows where things are. The @cwd line shows the base directory. > Most likely, @cwd is something like /usr/X11R6. Then, you should see > something like bin/mc. Oh, really? Is that what you saw in there? Where did you get your package from? > This tells you that mc is in /usr/X11R6/bin, > or wherever @cwd points. Add /usr/X11R6/bin, or wherever @cwd points, > to your path. Go to http://www.freebsd.org/search.html and search the mailing list archives. You'll find this problem has been mentioned several times recently, and a simple explanation was given after checking for validity. The path is not part of the problem. -- Regards, -*Sue*- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message