Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 12:16:40 -0700 From: Adam Weinberger <adam@vectors.cx> To: Parker Brown <phbrown@charter.net> Cc: BSDQuestions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Disappearing Ports Message-ID: <20020813191640.GR2818@vectors.cx> In-Reply-To: <3D5958CD.9618EE68@charter.net> References: <3D5958CD.9618EE68@charter.net>
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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
>
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>> end of "Disappearing Ports" from Parker Brown <<
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