Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 13:19:49 -0700 From: Parker Brown <phbrown@charter.net> To: Adam Weinberger <adam@vectors.cx> Cc: BSDQuestions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Disappearing Ports Message-ID: <3D5969E5.48483A33@charter.net> References: <3D5958CD.9618EE68@charter.net> <20020813191640.GR2818@vectors.cx>
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Thanks, Adam. I learn a little more each time I bug you guys, and it could have been forever and a day before I stumbled upon this particular trick. Pb Adam Weinberger wrote: > use the tool pkg_info. > > # pkg_info -L 3dc\* > > will tell you that the installed program name is 3Dc. > > note the capitalization. > > also, you can do, for example: > > # grep 'bin/' /usr/ports/3dc/pkg-plist > bin/3Dc > > -Adam > > >> (08.13.2002 @ 1206 PST): Parker Brown said, in 0.9K: << > > I just re-installed BSD 4.6, and I felt that installing packages -vs- > > porting might save me some disk space, so during the pre-install > > configurations I selected several items (I'll use 3dc -"3-D Chess" as > > an example) from the packages section. Well, no error messages, but I > > can't find it. So I decided to install it using make install in > > /usr/ports/games/3dc. I got the message that it was already installed, > > and I followed the suggestion to run make deinstall and then make > > reinstall. All went fine, except that I can't find it. Running find > > /usr -name "3dc" -print says "SURE it exists, as a directory in > > /usr/ports/games!" And no module named 3dc exists in my $PATH, which > > seems to be in order. > > > > What am I doing wrong? Even pkg_info says that it is installed, but I > > can neither find it nor run it. > > > > Pb > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > >> end of "Disappearing Ports" from Parker Brown << > > -- > "Oh good, my dog found the chainsaw." > -Lilo, "Lilo & Stitch" > Adam Weinberger > adam@vectors.cx > http://vectors.cx To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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