From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 23 11:49:34 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from peloton.physics.montana.edu (peloton.physics.montana.edu [153.90.192.177]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A94AD1538F for ; Tue, 23 Mar 1999 11:49:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu) Received: from localhost (brett@localhost) by peloton.physics.montana.edu (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA08883; Tue, 23 Mar 1999 12:48:33 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu) Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 12:48:32 -0700 (MST) From: Brett Taylor To: Juan Kuuse Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Newbie with package problems (file managers and StarOffice) In-Reply-To: <36F7E5F4.8DEB67E8@quik.guate.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, On Tue, 23 Mar 1999, Juan Kuuse wrote: > I am new to FreeBSD and to UNIX in general. > Browsing my 3.0-RELEASE CD, I evaluate packages (X11-fm, file managers). > > I list the packages and the problems: > asfiles - how do I run it? peloton: {1} more /usr/ports/x11-fm/asfiles/pkg/PLIST bin/files (so type files) You might try tkdesk. (it's also in ports/x11-fm) > A general question about packages: > And how do I find out where they are installed and which command to use > to run them? > (It isn't always mentioned in the info given by pkg_info.) Check either /var/db/pkg/+CONTENTS or /usr/ports/some_dir/some_app/pkg/PLIST and look for the bin/some_executable entries. Both of these won't tell you the exact path, but once you know the name of the executable you can just do a "which some_file" and it will tell you where it's located. Brett *********************************************************** Brett Taylor brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu * brett@daemonnews.org * * http://www.daemonnews.org/ * *********************************************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message