Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 07:29:36 +1000 From: Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au> To: Thomas Dean <tomdean@ix.netcom.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pkg_add mc : error Message-ID: <19980729072936.31289@welearn.com.au> In-Reply-To: <199807271551.IAA17067@ix.netcom.com>; from Thomas Dean on Mon, Jul 27, 1998 at 08:51:35AM -0700 References: <35BCA071.992ECF45@swn.de> <199807271551.IAA17067@ix.netcom.com>
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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
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