From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 9 22:22:46 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post-11.mail.nl.demon.net (post-11.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56BF037B404 for ; Sat, 9 Mar 2002 22:22:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.238.194.207] (helo=mailhost.raggedclown.net) by post-11.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16jwjC-000GkR-00 for questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 10 Mar 2002 06:22:42 +0000 Received: from angel.raggedclown.net (angel.raggedclown.intra [192.168.1.7]) by mailhost.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Mail Gateway [buffy]) with ESMTP id 2C94E13040 for ; Sun, 10 Mar 2002 07:22:41 +0100 (CET) Received: by angel.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Host [angel], from userid 1005) id B4272225C1; Sun, 10 Mar 2002 07:22:39 +0100 (CET) Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2002 07:22:39 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Command not found Message-ID: <20020310062239.GA766@raggedclown.net> References: <20020309204137.J13147-100000@agnes> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020309204137.J13147-100000@agnes> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i 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 On Sat, Mar 09, 2002 at 08:43:46PM -0600, Lute Mullenix wrote: > Just wondering why I get a command not found error when I try to start > apps that are listed when I run pkg_info. > > I'm pretty new at this game. > Usually the pkg_info gives the release name of the application, which will include version number, and possibly other qualifying information. The program name is usually that name minus this extra information. Concrete example: In my pkg_info I see this... figlet-2.2 SysV banner-like program prints strings in large fancy ASCII So "-2.2" is showing me the version number, the program is actually called "figlet".. So I type "figlet Pooh Bear" and... ____ _ ____ | _ \ ___ ___ | |__ | __ ) ___ __ _ _ __ | |_) / _ \ / _ \| '_ \ | _ \ / _ \/ _` | '__| | __/ (_) | (_) | | | | | |_) | __/ (_| | | |_| \___/ \___/|_| |_| |____/ \___|\__,_|_| With some things that are installed, particularly to do with X..it can be less obvious (but I see someone has explained this in another email, so I won't repeat what he says). Some of the things installed may not actually be runnable programs btw. -- Regards Cliff Sarginson -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message