From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 13 13:20:10 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3BA437B400 for ; Tue, 13 Aug 2002 13:20:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dc-mx10.cluster1.charter.net (dc-mx10.cluster1.charter.net [209.225.8.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F7E043E4A for ; Tue, 13 Aug 2002 13:20:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phbrown@charter.net) Received: from [66.214.73.121] (HELO charter.net) by dc-mx10.cluster1.charter.net (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 3.5.9) with ESMTP id 52984459; Tue, 13 Aug 2002 16:18:47 -0400 Message-ID: <3D5969E5.48483A33@charter.net> Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 13:19:49 -0700 From: Parker Brown X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Adam Weinberger Cc: BSDQuestions Subject: Re: Disappearing Ports References: <3D5958CD.9618EE68@charter.net> <20020813191640.GR2818@vectors.cx> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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