From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 23 20:15:55 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB92116A4CE for ; Wed, 23 Mar 2005 20:15:55 +0000 (GMT) Received: from relay.rdsnet.ro (gimli.rdsnet.ro [193.231.236.70]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id ED8BB43D5C for ; Wed, 23 Mar 2005 20:15:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from itetcu@people.tecnik93.com) Received: (qmail 4640 invoked from network); 23 Mar 2005 20:09:56 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO smtp.rdsnet.ro) (62.231.74.130) by smtp1-133.rdsnet.ro with SMTP; 23 Mar 2005 20:09:56 -0000 Received: (qmail 19803 invoked by uid 89); 23 Mar 2005 20:23:46 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO it.buh.tecnik93.com) (81.196.204.98) by 0 with SMTP; 23 Mar 2005 20:23:46 -0000 Received: from it.buh.tecnik93.com (localhost.buh.tecnik93.com [127.0.0.1]) by it.buh.tecnik93.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C00741141A; Wed, 23 Mar 2005 22:15:51 +0200 (EET) Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 22:15:50 +0200 From: Ion-Mihai Tetcu To: rmlessl@loyno.edu Message-ID: <20050323221550.6cff904b@it.buh.tecnik93.com> In-Reply-To: <4241cb21.3d9.2ec0e6.11631@loyno.edu> References: <4241cb21.3d9.2ec0e6.11631@loyno.edu> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 1.0.3 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.4) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing Ports X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 20:15:55 -0000 On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 14:01:37 -0600 "Ryan Lessl" wrote: > Hello, first of all I want to say that I am enjoying using > FreeBSD 4.11 Release. I am a total novice at this but have > been learning a lot and am glad I finally canned Windows. I > got very tired of it and have tried a very small Linux > distribution and now FreeBSD and they both worked/are > working better than Windows did on my machine (I've only got > FreeBSD installed currently). > > Can you help me? > > Okay, so I tried to install the AIM program by using the > command "make install" in the /usr/ports/net/aim/ directory, > and it did a bunch of stuff that I'm guessing is what you > call "compiling"...it downloaded stuff and wrote new folders > and files, and said it was registering the installation, and > told me it was all through when it was all through. But I > can't figure out how to run the program. I found the new > folders and files it created, including an "executable file" > called "aim" in a new "aim" folder, but I couldn't run it. > I tried clicking on it, running it from a terminal, and > running it from the KDE "Run Command" box, but none of that > worked. Then I tried the "rehash" command like it suggested > in the online manual, but that didn't change the situation. And the error was ? > What do I need to do? The installation html that it gives > me has specific instructions for all OSs except FreeBSD, > only an "other OSs" section, and I'm not real sure if what > that tells me to do is actually what I need to do. In the shell in which you did rehash, do a: ls -l `which aim` and then `which aim` If it doesn't run after the second command then send us the output of the first. -- IOnut Unregistered ;) FreeBSD "user"